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#6: ⚛️ Neutrinos, cows and the frazzle 👻

Whelmed We often hear of people being overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but you can actually also just be whelmed. The Oxford dictionary defines it likes this: whelm — engulf, submerge, or bury: a swimmer whelmed in a raging storm — [no object] well up or flow: the brook whelmed up from its source

Richard Allardice Jun 22, 2021

#5 🏠 Spiders, scissors and sibling rivalry 🕷️

How to be a person It’s the people you grow up with – parents, caregivers, siblings – who get to witness most closely, for better or worse, your development into a person in the world. Perhaps for you that was a relatively harmonious evolution and everyone just got along. Or maybe

Richard Allardice Jun 15, 2021

#4 🐕 Dog parks, newness and super-advanced aliens 👾

I don’t own any vinyl records, but recently I was wondering about grooves – specifically, how often the stylus of a record player wears down into the record, carving a valley, damaging the sound, making it unlikely the stylus would ever escape. It turns out this isn’t how it

Richard Allardice Jun 8, 2021

#3 🤩 Stars, lasers and work garble 👔

The work you and the you you Are you the same person at work that you are at home? For me these are two slightly different people. I even have an entirely separate name, just for work. My name is Richard, but most people at work call me Dice. 🎲 We’

Richard Allardice Jun 1, 2021

#2 🧠 Blurts, faux pas and wide-eyed reactions 😮

Hello! 🐣 Have you ever said the wrong thing and regretted it? Yeah, me neither. Maybe don’t read this while drinking a hot drink. ☕ Heads saying words Your brain retrieves and delivers the words that come out of your mouth very, very fast – it takes mere hundreds of milliseconds. Sometimes

Richard Allardice May 25, 2021

#1 🥾 Expectations thwarted, then redeemed by duct tape + a mango 🥭

Great expectations This week’s post is about a pair of boots and a cascading series of disasters, but it’s also about expectations – those beliefs you have about the future which can often see you wrong. You’re not ready for the unexpected because you were so assured of

Richard Allardice May 18, 2021

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