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Mike Sowden

Northern Region, Valencia
As seen in: Everything Is Amazing, CNN, CNN Travel, Medium, Both Are True, SFGate, Substack, The Weekly Anthropocene, Couchfish, Curious Humans, On Substack and
Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland. Writes Everything Is Amazing.

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None Of This Is Normal, And That's Better News Than You Might Think

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By Mike Sowden, Steve Kamb
| Everything Is Amazing
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.
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Shields Up, Stupid.

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By Mike Sowden
| Everything Is Amazing
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.
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Rain, Whip Me Harder

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By Mike Sowden
| Everything Is Amazing
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.
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