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Mike Sowden

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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The Horrifying Science Of Beaming You Up

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By Mike Sowden
| Everything Is Amazing
Hello again! This is Everything is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and wonder.
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Why It's Fun To Actually *Do* Something

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By Mike Sowden
| Everything Is Amazing
One of the dangers of writing a newsletter about the wonders of science is sometimes you stumble over an idea you just can’t get out your head. The one currently haunting me (thanks to writing this piece about the 4,900 year old Prometheus) is: why can’t we just plant a few billion more trees?
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Hey, Where's Our Next "Expanse"?

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By Mike Sowden
| Everything Is Amazing
Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science and ideas and the importance of remembering when we saved the world. This week, I’ve been captivated by this photo of a can of coconut milk: As you can see, it’s a really lousy piece of Photoshop work. Except - wait, what? These are, as far as I can tell, unaltered photos of a very real, very confusing phenomenon that happens twice a year.
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