Mike Sowden

2 weeks ago | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a science-adjacent newsletter about macho pinks, poisonous greens and other colourful absurdities (for example, much of ancient history). An occupational hazard of writing this newsletter, and I guess of being a student in general, is that everything turns into a loose thread you can’t resist tugging on.

3 weeks ago | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden |Dan Jones

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a science newsletter about the fathomless depths of my own ignorance. Did you know maps haven’t always pointed north? Me neither, until I wrote about it. Did you know clouds are alive?Sort of true!Is it possible for you to see impossible colours? That’s…maybe the dumbest sentence I’ve ever written (which is really saying something) but also YES YOU (PROBABLY) CAN! And so on. It’s that kind of newsletter.

1 month ago | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden |Ryan McCormick |Ryan Mccormick

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, an enthusiastic romp through the sciences in search of a good “wow!”. Today in the United States was the first of the Stand Up For Science rallies, protesting the “wrecking ball to science” recently unleashed by the Trump administration. If I wasn’t so late in getting this newsletter out, I would have given details on how you could attend. (Ghagh.

2 months ago | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden

This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and runaway balloons, large and small. This week I’ve been greatly enjoying this book:It collects together around a hundred of Jono Hey’s brilliant Sketchplanations, unpacking tricky concepts in a brilliantly accessible way - and reading it is like romping through a natural history of ideas, assembled by the most fun & restlessly interested person you know.

2 months ago | extrafocus.com | Jesse J. Anderson |Mike Sowden |Rachel Kramer Bussel |Liisa Kovala

Hey friends,Yesterday I did a live chat with Alex Dobrenko, a fellow substacker who writes which is sort of a mix of humor, shame, anxiety, and ADHD—truly a delight!It was a super fun conversation and I heard some people had trouble accessing it while it was happening, so I wanted to make sure you all saw that the video was available.