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Yo-Yo Ma was in his late forties when he decided he was truly happy being a musician. It was then he realized that he could use the cello to explore the world, to ask what it means to be human and how we can navigate the future together. Now, he has invited six friends to join him in answering these questions, to explore how they came to understand who they are, how they learned to love what they do in life, and how they would like to live in the world.

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it...

"Djadjushkin son" - radiospektakl' po motivam odnoimennoj povesti Fjodora Dostoevskogo. Povest' byla opublikovana v Sankt-Peterburge v 1859 godu. V provincial'nyj gorod Mordasov priezzhaet staryj bogatyj knjaz' K. Odna iz mestnyh dam, Mar'ja Aleksandrovna Moskaljova, stremitsja vydat' za nego zamuzh svoju doch' Zinu. Takim obrazom Mar'ja Aleksandrovna zhelaet steret' v mordasovskom obshhestve pamjat' o neudachnom romane Ziny i uchitelja ejo mladshego brata.