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Some lines from this brilliant Substack post. …I did not take photos of myself, was not filtered, and had no idea what I looked like as a bunny rabbit, puppy, or unicorn. …I had no idea how many steps I’d…

These hydropanels use the power of the sun to extract an endless volume of clean drinking water from the air.

Growing Underground uses hydroponic systems and LEDs to grow crops pesticide-free using 100% renewable energy. They grow salads 33 metres below the pavements of Clapham, London, drastically reducing transportation emissions.

Everyone agreed on the goal: develop a global computer network. They didn’t agree on how. By the early 1980s, several different protocols competed. OSI (Open Systems Interconnect), backed by European telephone monopolies and most governments, was favoured. Other strong competitors…

I don’t know about you guys, but, um, you know, I’ve been thinking recently that… that you know, maybe, um, allowing giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit… You know, maybe that was,…

It definitely seems that when change is more threatening than promising, everyone collectively hits the brakes. I’m not sure if that’s a lack of imagination, or perhaps even a correct risk-adjusted calculation. People just have less faith in the promise…

Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At the bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction – so easy to…

We experience life in terms of changes, we feel diminishing sensitivity to both gains and losses, but losses sting more than equivalently sized gains feel good.

This particular sentence in the book struck me. It says, We talked about luck, the hold it had over a child’s life – what he is born into, whether he is loved, and how intelligently. After a pause Miranda said…

Some years ago, my eyes locked onto a bus stop advertisement. It was a clear inoffensive statement. As someone who forgets their own birthday, there was no chance I’d remember the ad for later. I ended up spending ages googling…