Maria Popova is the founder and editor in chief of Brain Pickings, a curated inventory of indiscriminate curiosity and a celebration of the cross-pollination of ideas, spanning disciplines and niches from design to technology to neuroscience. She is a prolific purveyor of eclectic interestingness on Twitter, a contributing writer with Wired UK and GOOD Magazine, and a chronic TEDster. Maria recently moved to Los Angeles, where she works as a cultural curator and planner at TBWA\Chiat\Day.