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Substack Live: Brendan and Mike Talk Stories
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For Nine Days, The Earth Rang Like A Bell
And other examples of the incredible power of moving water.
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Now We Are 30,000: More Clueless But Well-Meant Advice For Writers, Artists And Fellow Idiots
Blimey blimey blimey.
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How To See An Impossible Colour
Glimpsing the Emerald City, and other brain-bending sights.
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How To Meet The Idiot Writing This Newsletter
Well, this should either go GREAT or TERRIBLY.
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A Beginner's Guide To Slowing Down Time
Could we ever experience the world the way birds do?
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The Man Who Mistook His Life For A Memory
Who are we without what we remember about ourselves?
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Let's Agree To Disagree Better
Plus: smelly mummies, monstrous celebrities and more.
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Is There Life In The Clouds?
Dispatches from the edge of our atmosphere.
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Open Thread: What are your most helpful ideas for difficult times?
Keeping the faith, one working hypothesis at a time.
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It's Only Ice (Like Nothing You've Ever Seen)
I recently went on my friend Pam’s terrific new podcast, which is all about getting sacked - and I talked about losing the second-best writing job I’ve…
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Thanks But I'll Walk, Scotty
On Star Trek's horrifying transporters - and why Nature just wants to have fun.
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The Balloon That Wouldn't Come Down
"I could not see the hands of the watch, nor the fine divisions on any instrument..."
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