7 THINGS WORTH KNOWING / 7 October 2026

Little Discoveries

Design · Philosophy · Plants · Curiosities · Words · Food · Cultures & peoples. 7 discoveries in this edition.

Poul Henningsen: designing the journey of light

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Overlapping shades do more than create a recognisable silhouette: they organise light, shadows and the position of our eyes.

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A sentence from the Meditations places personal advantage inside a community: an ethical question, rather than a law of biology.

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In mountainous Borneo, a plant turns part of its leaf into a container, while its flowers grow somewhere quite different.

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What looks like a portable home belongs to the body: ribs, vertebrae and covering reveal something very different from a backpack.

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The little notebook carries a history linking Arabic and medieval Latin: its documented origin does not describe just one kind of note.

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Dissolving sugar and turning it into caramel are different changes: understanding the colour also means considering which substances are present.

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In Turkish marbling, pigments are arranged on liquid before being transferred to paper: the heritage also includes learning that skilled gesture.

Original writing and illustrations made with AI assistance. Each discovery includes its sources. Our editorial method