Everything Is Amazing

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing - and based on today’s edition, who knows what it is? Nevertheless, if you’re not a subscriber, please sign up below (if only out of morbid curiosity): This one is best listened to - I must have aged myself ten years recording it for you. Nevertheless, there’s a transcript below. The other day, when it was 28 degrees Celsius outside here in western Scotland, I had an absolutely brilliant idea.

Hi. This is Mike of Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter that argues where we’re going, we need more of the right kind of idiots. If you haven’t yet done so, please sign up for maximum idiocy below: A few days ago I saw this image from the magnificent weird medieval guys (posted here): What a perfect name that would make for a regular round-up of interesting and hopeful things, I thought greedily. So, as the title of this newsletter confirms, I’m stealing it.

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, wonder and, amongst other absurdities, unexpectedly undiscovered islands. Today’s edition is a quick but important one, and it’s particularly aimed at folk in my corner of the world.

Hi! This is Everything Is Amazing. There’s a popular meme that’s been haunting me for the last few years: I have no idea who invented it, or drew the original it’s adapted from, or how long it’s actually been going.

In the second chapter of Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard Of Earthsea (1968), the aspiring wizard of the book title is having a really bad day: “Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the beasts, and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he wished.

If I had a PR team, I reckon this is the newsletter where they'd all quit. Article voiceover 0:00 -11:24 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a mid-life crisis newsletter about how liberating it is to realise you’re an idiot science and wonder.

(If you don't mind me saying.) Hello! This is Everything is Amazing, a newsletter about science and wonder. Today, in something of a sequel to this, let’s talk about the rest of you. 1) In early September of 1978, French entertainer Michel Lotito sits down to one of his favourite meals - one he’s regretfully concluded is a little too rich for his constitution to enjoy more than three times a year.

This article is narrated by its author - click on the voiceover at the top. Yesterday, I got stuck in traffic. I was walking briskly along the pavement (that’s the British word for “sidewalk”) and I had to stumble to a halt because there were two teenagers in front of me, covering the whole path, and walking incredibly slowly because they were on their phones.

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, an enthusiastic caper through the modern sciences in search of a good “wow!” you can feel all the way to your [redacted]s. In today’s edition, I’m once again channellling a bit of Season 4, by looking at a few remarkable discoveries within (and under) the two-thirds of our planet covered with water. To get us started - wait, what the hell is that? Yes, that blue patch’s name is indeed the Cold Blob (or, in some publications, the North Atlantic Warming Hole).

The voicover for this edition is read by me, the author - and I think it will work better on you than the transcript, for reasons I’ll go into shortly. TRANSCRIPT: The other day, I did something that millions of people have been doing daily for the last 25 years, and it horrified me. Here’s what happened.