Maria Popova
Maria Popova is a TED speaker who has written 2 quality-verified books, each paired here with their TED talk.
Maria Popova is the creator of The Marginalian (founded in 2006 under the bygone name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials; the author of some very thick and some very slender books; and the maker of The Universe in Verse -- a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry.