Maria Popova’s The Universe in Verse, featuring musician David Byrne and On Being creator Krista Tippett, is a charitable celebration of science and the wonder of reality, winged with poetry and music. Every spring since 2017, thousands of people have gathered in atoms to savor stories about scientific phenomena, discoveries, and forgotten visionaries from the history of science, paired with poems read by beloved cultural icons — musicians and writers, artists and astronauts, physicists and poets.