# Maria Popova **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** writer and cultural curator ## Definition **Maria Popova** is a writer and cultural curator. At ICE, spoke at the ICE launching conference on memory, memetics, art, and science. ## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments created The Marginalian, formerly Brain Pickings, an independent archive of writing about literature, science, philosophy, art, and the search for meaning. ## Relationships - **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]]. - **wider alignments:** [[wiki/ICE Launching Conference|ICE Launching Conference]], memetics, literature, and public intellectual culture. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.themarginalian.org/) - [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)