Gaëtan Boulanger

#11 when you think about it, cooking is the closest we got to dark magic. You control a complicated chemical reaction, add energy to the mix, and generate an item whose properties are completely different from the ones of the original ingredients. Especially if it's a cake!

#12 BUTTER CROISSANTS

#13 "Cruising through space at 400000 km per hour on a ship that's out of control, a crew of humans tries to figure out what to do next, in a thrilling quest for meaning, purpose and happiness." Nice sci-fi pitch, isn't it? Well good news: it's the story of your life!

#14 I wonder how cavemen felt when they contemplated beautiful creeks, or incandescent sunsets, or magestic snowy mountain peaks. I wonder how much of our amazement in the face of nature is cultural, and how much is visceral. But anyways: nature is discombobulatingly magnificent.

#15 If you're lucky enough to be able to exercice, it's mind-blowing how you can get better at it, compared to how unaccessible it feels at first. Running 10km may seem like the distance from the Earth to the Moon. But after a while, it becomes doable... and even enjoyable!

#16 When we look at a star that's hundreds of light-years away, we look into the past. And on a much smaller scale, the same goes with everything: we perceive a world that already evolved into something else, be it by a fraction. So technically, we're ALWAYS living in the past!

#17 Today should have been my grandma's 90th birthday. The best thing you can do when you love someone and dread the day they'll die is involve in your relationship with them. That way they'll infect you with who they are, and will indeed stick with you forever. Love shapes us.

#18 Nature keeps proving those who want to use it as some kind of normative authority wrong. For instance, I recently learned that the male human body actually is able to produce milk! Biology is complex and surprising and weird and that's part of what makes nature beautiful.