Well hello there lovely email friends. As I write this there are kids playing in the street, just like people tell you used to happen in the old days. After such a long period of physical and emotional suppression, their after-school shrieks and howls are somehow cathartic. Like green shoots busting up between the paving slabs, the lack of traffic has allowed them to emerge. There isn’t a level of noise they can make that would annoy me today.
🇸🇪 The Great Moose Migration: I just can’t look away from the Swedish national broadcaster’s current adventure in slow television. Using enough remote-control cameras to rival a reality gameshow, the network is capturing the migration of wild moose and streaming it live.
🛰 See A Satellite Tonight: Things are looking up! For those times when the majesty of the night sky isn’t quite exciting enough, how about spotting some man-made objects hurtling past. This is an impressive implementation that shows you when to look up depending on where you are.
🔡 Marvel Superhero Lettering: Apparently it’s superhero day today, so it feels appropriate to skirt those shoals. In the world of comics, there’s just too much variety out there to form a comprehensive guide to all the lettering used, but this is a strong start. This collection from Marvel superhero comics shows a delightful variety of hand-drawn lettering styles.
📸 The male idea of power is so dumb: Miranda Sawyer in the Guardian profiling Michael Stipe. He was in the one of the most influential indie bands ever, but the songwriter prefers life as a visual artist. He talks presidents, parties and photographing his heroes.
🐝 Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships: A fascinating long read on the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species. My cat has a thing for arranging dead bumblebees in neat lines, and now I have some insight into how she pulls it off.
🏞 Welcome to the YOLO Economy: Burned out and flush with savings, some workers are quitting in search of postpandemic adventure.
🕯 What to Say When Someone Is Gaslighting You: The term for psychological manipulation has been thrown around a lot over the past decade. The awareness of the concept in general has been helpful for many people who experienced this type of behaviour but didn’t have a word for it.
🧠 The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations: Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference.
Dare you? It’s out of this world…