"The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times."

– Brian Eno

Illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products, like mechanical pencils, lighters and pez dispensers, that you may have taken for granted. Drawn by Bryan Macomber, a mechanical engineer and artist.

A really neat idea.

https://mechanical-pencil.com/

“We need a little whimsy to remind us that life is not just a tired, oppressive grind under dangerously escalating fascism and climate crisis…”

My latest newsletter is about the need for whimsy in times of woe: https://thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/whimsy-is-healing

Scientists have crossed the DNA of a crab with a cheetah.

They had to cancel the project because things went sideways *real* fast.