Thanks to Maria Popova & her incredible site,Brain Pickings, for posting this for all the world to enjoy & contemplate.

1. “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman and poem #1397 by Emily Dickinson, read by Janna Levin
2. “Education” by Elizabeth Alexander, read by the poet herself
3. “Hubble Photographs: After Sappho” by Adrienne Rich, read by Amanda Palmer
4. “Theories of Everything” by Rebecca Elson, read by Regina Spektor
5. “A Solar Eclipse” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, read by Natascha McElhone
6. Musical interlude: Amanda Palmer
7. “As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse” by Billy Collins, read by Chick Nice
8. “Achieving Perspective” by Pattiann Rogers, read by David Byrne
9. “The Shampoo” by Elizabeth Bishop, read by me
10. Musical interlude: Regina Spektor
11. “Research” by Cecilia Payne, read by Natalie Batalha
12. “Faster Than Light” by Marilyn Nelson, read by the poet herself
13. “Explaining Relativity” by Rebecca Elson, read by Stephon Alexander
14. “Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be” by Ross Gay, read by Bill T. Jones
15. “After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics” by W.H. Auden, read by Josh Groban
16. “Figures of Thought” by Howard Nemerov, read by Krista Tippett
17. “In Transit” by Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman
18. “Einstein’s Daughter” by Jennifer Clement, read by Emily Wells
19. Musical finale: Emily Wells