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4 Stupid Ways To Have A Better 2022
“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.” - Michael Palin
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December 2021

Deep Breath, Look Up
"Because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they will never see it."
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The Troubling Science Of What Happens Next
Or "How I Tried To Torpedo My Own Career"
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The Best Virtual Lightshow You'll Ever (Not) See
Light pillars, diamond dust and sun dogs ahoy. Who knew?
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November 2021

Lola Akinmade Åkerström Is Telling The Right Stories
An interview with an award-winning, multi-lane storyteller who writes *everywhere*.
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How To Reconnect: A November Challenge
WARNING: this may give you a kick in the feels.
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"Like Tripping Without The Drugs": The Science Of Extreme Staring
There be dragons here. And lions. And lion-dragons. And whatever the hell THAT is.
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Fooling With Certainty: The Impossibly Real Worlds Of MC Escher
“Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?”
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The Metaverse Sounds Hauntingly Awful
...in these three terrible, horrible, no-good ways.
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October 2021

Why Everywhere We Look, There We Are
And why that might be a good thing for the planet.
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What A Weird Way To Write A Book
(But is it weird *enough*?)
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The Science Of Seeing What Isn't There
"A city all floating in the air, and so measureless and so splendid..."
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