Illustration from Thomas Wright's 'An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe', 1750

Three Medlars with a Butterfly, Adriaen Coorte, #Art

My latest newsletter. It includes details of two free events - The Adaptation Game on the 8 October and my facilitated conversation for Time Use Week on the 23 October, plus a recommended podcast and also a random piece of trivia. Enjoy! dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/offerings-...

Is hell really other people? Just a short note I wrote about collaborating: dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/collaborat...

A portrait of me today. (No. It’s actually called Yawning Man and it’s by Peter Bruegel). #Art

I liked this interview with writer and environmentalist Professor Bill McKibben which seems to be a nice blend of sober realism and realistic hope. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

The Adaptation Game is a creative, effective, and meaningful way of sparking conversation about community resilience and climate change. Play TAG as part of Victorian Seniors Festival 2025! climateactionmerribek.org/2025/09/29/p...

Men messing with women's (or gorgon's) heads du jour: Medusa's shrieking head on the shield of Perseus, 1597, by Caravaggio. It's his birthday.

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know theconversation.com/hindi-greek-...

Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists? theconversation.com/are-business...

Dew on a Blade of Grass, Wilson Bentley, ca. 1910s #Art #Photography

I have recently been writing posts inspired by the etymologies of words to do with wrecks and salvage and I have had fun finding images to accompany them. This one is of a ship being “devoured by an octopus” by Orra White Hitchcock and created sometime in the 1600s. #Art

A short piece on adjusting to crisis as well as the fascinating etymology of the word kraken. #Writing dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/the-kraken...

From Seaweeds, Eliza A Jordson, 1848

Portrait of a left eye, unknown artist, ca. 1800

Detail from Blackhawk Restaurant Menu, 1942

Did you know that the word ‘derelict’ was originally a maritime term? My latest post on the etymologies of shipwrecks and salvage and sense-making during a crisis. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/derelict

A short piece about those moments of connection that reach past our normal conception of ‘foreign’ or ‘different’ and connect the inspiration and artistic skill of an artist and the creative interpretation of a viewer. #Art dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/connecting

I love this little guy: Han Pottery Dog, photo by Gary Todd, via Wikimedia. #Art

"AI has no Dreaming, it has no kinship, country, or cultural obligations." - Terri Janke Very good and interesting article, this. #AI #Art www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

“I love the idea of an instrument existing that prompts you to slow down, contemplate something, and notice the nuances of its colouring.” A creative prompt that asks you to indulge in some quiet wonder about the colours in the world around you. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/sky-blue

Cyanometer, an instrument used to measure the intensity of blue in the sky. Invented by Horace Benedict de Saussure, 1789

Courtyard, Tetouan, Morocco, John Singer Sargent #Art

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Did you know that the word ‘derelict’ was originally a maritime term? My latest post on the etymologies of shipwrecks and salvage and sense-making during a crisis. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/derelict

Maria by Helene Schjerfbeck #Art

Preparing Venus de Milo for transport from the Louvre to Valençay, 1939. Museum: Musee du Louvre, Paris. #Art

My latest post on the etymologies of flotsam and jetsam, and the hard choices you have to make when you’re going down. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/flotsam-an...

Work in progress, Vincent Van Gogh #Art

Reflecting on the etymologies of the words ‘storm’ and ‘tempest’ as a sense-making strategy during a time of crisis. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/storm-and-...

It’s a rainy Friday evening here in Melbourne. I hope you have a restful weekend. Reclining Reader, Milton Avery, 1950 #Art

Stormy Sea with Dolphins, JMW Turner #Art

Self portrait, Paul Cezanne, 1864 #Art

My latest post on the etymologies of flotsam and jetsam, and the hard choices you have to make when you’re going down. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/flotsam-an...

Vintage travel poster, 1925

“The interaction in your own mind, is very much with the author” - Australian arts minister Tony Burke “The rampant opportunism of big tech aiming to pillage other people’s work for their own profit is galling and shameful” - Peter Garrett #BookSky theconversation.com/ai-companies...

Illustration from Erbario, Anon., Italy, 15c.

Have you ever been in the doldrums, that glum listless feeling of never moving forward? Read my short post on the etymology of this interesting phrase: dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/the-doldrums

Beautiful World, Rene Magritte #Art

Cul de Lampe, Odilon Redon, 1944

Have you ever been in the doldrums, that glum listless feeling of never moving forward? Read my short post on the etymology of this interesting phrase: dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/the-doldrums

False Prophets, Revelations 16.13, from the Queen Mary Apocalypse, London, 14c.

“Who, I wondered, has been collecting broken-off sculpted noses and why?” I learnt a new thing. #Art dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/collecting...

Female Theatre Mask, Roman fresco from Casa del Bracciale d’Oro, Pompeii

Ghost of a Genius, Paul Klee #Art

My latest post on the etymologies of the words ‘storm’ and ‘tempest’. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/storm-and-...

Pan, Willy Pogany, 1912

Phattfacia Stupenda, Edward Lear, 1888

Illustration from Nos Invisibles, Raffaele Mainella, 1907

Kellar in his latest Mystery - Self-Decapitation, Strobridge & Co., 1897