I met a girl who sang the blues, And I asked her for some happy news, But she just smiled and turned away. American Pie
Spencer Silver, the Inventor of Post-it Notes, is dead at 80
“I remember someone saying, ‘Joe, now you caught the car.’ I said, ‘No, I think I got the bus.’ I’m the dog that caught the bus.” Joe Biden
“Our brains can’t see, or hear, or taste. They sit in the dark, making up a world informed by electrical stimuli from our sense organs. The act of perception is an act of prediction, of estimation. What we consciously perceive is our brain’s ‘best guess’ at what the outside world is like.” Laurence Scott, Picnic Comma Lightning
Photographers of interest: Brooke di Donato - uncanny domestic Ben Zack - colour, style Thomas Wrede - scale, simulation
‘A good toolbox is not the same as a toolbox full of good tools: two dozen top-quality hammers will not do the job. Instead, what you need is variety: a hammer, pliers, saw, a choice of screwdriver and more’ Tim Harford FT