Everything Is Amazing

A newsletter focused on expanding your perspective, enhancing your emotions, and improving your questioning skills. Curiosity enriches our experiences—can we actually *develop* it? Let’s explore together.

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For Nine Days, The Earth Rang Like A Bell

4 days ago | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about distracting oddities in science, like weird sky smells and nasal hallucinations. This season, we’re looking at the world of wonders over our heads - and in researching a recent newsletter, I discovered the arresting notion that if all the air was squeezed out of a cloud and then what was left fell on you in one go, it would instantly kill you. The math: cumulus cloud density is estimated to be around 0.5 grams per cubic meter.
Now We Are 30,000: More Clueless But Well-Meant Advice For Writers, Artists And Fellow Idiots

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

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science and wonder and the timeless wisdom of not eating plutonium and other ridiculousness. Today’s edition is a very special one. (And it’s also a spectacularly long one - so you will need to click through to the Web version if you’re reading this in your email provider’s Inbox, because it’ll be cut off somewhere below.)First, a true story.
How To See An Impossible Colour

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

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity, wonder, and how ancient people were only as daft as we are. The big international science headline of the last week was possible signs of life on another planet!Okay. We’ve been here before and seen statements this dramatic that turned out (for now) to be false alarms - and true to form, the word “possible” is doing a LOT of work here, as befitting analysis of a world that’s 700 trillion miles away.
How To Meet The Idiot Writing This Newsletter

1 month ago | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden

Hi! This is Mike from Everything Is Amazing. For over a year now, I’ve been having what the LinkedIn folk would call “1-to-1 calls” on Zoom with this newsletter’s paying subscribers.
A Beginner's Guide To Slowing Down Time

1 month 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.
The Man Who Mistook His Life For A Memory

1 month 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.
Is There Life In The Clouds?

2 months 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.
Open Thread: What are your most helpful ideas for difficult times?

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.
Thanks But I'll Walk, Scotty

Feb 3, 2025 | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden |Jodi Ettenberg

Hello again! This is Everything is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and wonder - and, this season, what’s right above our heads. It’s been a really tough week for science in the United States (and outside it, because of the internationally collaborative nature of research). The growing chaos unleashed by Trump’s administration has been really hard to watch, and it clearly isn’t over yet.
The Balloon That Wouldn't Come Down

Jan 19, 2025 | everythingisamazing.substack.com | Mike Sowden

Hello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and wonder - and today, its seventh season begins!Best hold onto your hat for this one. (If you’re reading this in email, click on the Article Voiceover button to open up the Web version & listen to me narrating this one with my very own cakehole.)For many of my teenage years, I had a recurring dream that I was trapped on a runaway train.