The Glass Cliff
Issue 22 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter.Discovering the Glass Cliff, thoughts on being a tech-fearing-Negative-Nancy, and how sea snakes are looking for love in all the wrong places.
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Musings
“I believe that one of the greatest mistakes made by human beings is to want certainties when trying to understand something.The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical absence of certainty.Thanks to the acute awareness of our ignorance, we are open to doubt and can continue to learn and to learn better. This has always been the strength of scientific thinking—thinking born of curiosity, revolt, change.”
Carlo Rovelli
We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us
Issue 21 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Thoughts on the ways our tools can affect our behaviour, amazing photos of Pink Salt Ponds, and notes on the Booker Prize Longlist books.
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An island is a very human idea
Issue 20 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Thoughts on disconnectedness; the rise of must-read TV; ignorance and curiosity; and dinosaur origami.
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Elizabeth McCracken, The Souvenir Museum
I may not be predicting the future, I might actually be affecting it
Issue 19 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Thoughts on unwittingly influencing people, the etymological root of attention, dollhouses and demo modes, LEGO art, and blackout poetry.
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Dong-Shaped
A blackout poem created in honour of the billionaire space bros out there.
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Paranoid versus reparative readings, and the scale from “harm” to “uplift…
Issue 18 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. The heartbreaking story of Isabel Fall, children’s thoughts on time travel, how shipwrecks could change beer, and the parasite which turns ants into Dorian Gray.
Read more "Paranoid versus reparative readings, and the scale from “harm” to “uplift…"“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself, ‘Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me?’, no longer asks herself, ‘Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it liveable?”
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis