practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking: the Art Room Plant presents multiple vignettes on author PL Travers and her most famous character, Mary Poppins
savage garden: this year’s Edward Gorey envelope art competition has a sinister botanic theme—see previously—via Web Curios
catsup and fries: potatoes evolved from tomatoes
๐: a two-part episode on tempestology—the study of hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones
drowned in sound: reflections on the current state of music discovery and serendipity in general
liberation day: Trump’s tariffs go into effect—see more hapax: a project tracking every unique English word uttered on Bluesky, including those yet to be used—via Waxy
society for the protection of underground networks: SPUN has created a subterranean global atlas to map the mycorrhizal connections (previously) under our feet that support the ecosystem above
ๅ: the spiritual underpinnings of the umbrella in Japanese society
