Everything Is Amazing

It’s *definitely* time we did this. Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and wonder, and the power of looking and looking and looking. Take water-coolers, for example! Oh, how useful they are! How well-designed! How dull. Behold my now-dead soul, for the life in it hath fled at the sight of these ghastly contraptions. I’d rather spend a full day staring at my bank balance.

This is a newsletter about doing this, and not doing this, and wondering what the hell this was like. I have just moved house, hence this shorter-than usual edition. Here’s my new view when I’m assembling this newsletter (well, when it’s not raining, this being Scotland and all): Yes, that’s a real pigeon on the lawn, hunting for the seeds I just scattered onto it.

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a science newsletter that sometimes lurches wildly into talking about scones and stuffed animals and really dangerous wallpaper, but I think I mostly get away with it. (There’s also some properly big science too, here and there.) Today, here’s a sort-of-prequel to a newsletter I’m sending your way shortly.

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, wonder, and the benefits of enthusiastically nerding out over enjoyable things - say, for a whole year. In this edition, we’re embarking on a new journey that I previously announced here: "We begin with a scene 1 meter wide..." "But it’s no longer 1956, or even 1977.

Hi. This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about using curiosity to tune out clickbait, remember what really matters, and just occasionally, be the very best carrot you can be.

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and wonder. Since starting this project in early 2021, I’ve inexpertly blundered my way into learning about a ton of things and publishing the results for all to see and maybe laugh at. But then, because of the nature of emailed-out newsletters, they more or less disappeared from view, banished into Archives that, let’s face it, nobody has the time to read.

Hi! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science and wonder. Since yesterday I announced I’m starting re-sharing the challenges I was running in the earliest days of this newsletter, I thought it’d be fun to send you this as well - one of my earliest attempts to record a voiceover of one of these newsletters. It’s about learning to be kind about the vivid, complex lives of other people - and about the worst teacher on this subject that I ever had.

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a science newsletter written by a guy who tried to see a once-in-a-lifetime eclipse, but unfortunately picked the wrong sky to do it under: Physicist Alastair Williams had a much better view from near Zaragoza in Spain… …while this shot by photographer Albert Dros in Menorca is absolute madness. And honestly, how astonishing it is that we get to see this.

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, wonder and weird lights in the sky that aren’t actually there (sorry). In only slightly horrifying news, it seems John Carpenter was indeed onto something here: I probably should have realised it myself, when I recently wrote this piece about living microbes surviving in our stratosphere: Anywhere you find clouds - aka. vast aerosols of liquid droplets - there’s usually a decent chance that life will be lurking inside.

Hello again! This is Everything is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and wonder.