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Surprise meSoma Isles
For The Wild is a media organisation focused on land-based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth and consumerism — a podcast, films and zines amounting to 'an anthology of the Anthropocene.' Why not st
Surprise meWild Margin
A playfully provocative call for 'every curious human to do science and post it on the internet,' with a so-true-it-hurts analysis of establishment science. 'Professions are bundles of weak-link interventions; they keep out quacks, but they also keep out revolutionaries. They enforce stand
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GroundedUnfolding Realm
There's a Death Cab for Cutie lyric: 'every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time.' Life is inherently volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, and while we all implicitly know this, we still fear uncertainty and strive to create order out of chaos — 'our way of organizing the cacophony
Make senseUnfolding Realm
'Our computers made us think like them… break the silo.' Capacities is an intriguing personal knowledge management tool that offers to create a network of thoughts by connecting objects the way we naturally structure information. If you're the sort of person who gets excited by bullet jour
WonderMaker's Forge
Tenochtitlan was once the largest city in the Americas and capital of the Aztec Empire, until its conquest by the Spanish in the 1500s. Modern-day Mexico City is built on top of its ruins, using stone repurposed from temples demolished after the city's capture. Thomas Kole has combined dro
ImagineHearthlands
A scripted comedy that updates the time-honoured tradition of farcically absurdist British radio-plays for the podcast age. In the small village of Piffling, siblings Rudyard and Antigone Funn battle to keep their ramshackle undertaking business afloat after a slick new competitor arrives
ImagineHearthlands
Hannah Arendt said that irony is a kind of action, because it represents an unwillingness or inability to put up with nonsense. At the Legal Lullabies website you can close your eyes, drift away, and join the 1% of technology users who claim to have read the full terms and conditions of In
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WonderEntangled Vale
A fun and factual five-minute explainer on why leaves falling on train tracks create a slimy black sludge that bonds to the rails, making it hard for trains to slow down — and the complicated, expensive logistics of what to do about it. The Half as Interesting channel specialises in this k
ImagineMaker's Forge
It hadn't occurred to me to have a favourite punctuation mark until a friend declared hers to be the em-dash in a list of 'odd favourites.' It's mine too. And, as this article makes clear, how oddly expressive of one's character it is: 'the dash often serves as the butterfly leaf on the di
Make senseSoma Isles
A delightful free app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for identifying birds. Take a picture, record birdsong, or simply answer a few questions, and — based on your location and the date — Merlin taps hundreds of millions of records in the eBird citizen-science database to work out whic