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Where shall we wander?

Follow a question through the research, or spend a little time with a story. Everything in this collection is free to read in full.

Ideas, evidence & experience

Articles

Possibility & potential

How Many Talents Are Waiting for an Instrument?

What happens when a person discovers an ability only after the right tool, opportunity or environment finally appears? Music provides the opening question. Human specialisation makes it much larger.

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The mind & identity

How Much of Yourself Have You Yet to Meet

Carl Jung’s ideas about persona, shadow and individuation open a question about how much of ourselves we have yet to discover.

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Invention & imagination

The Little Boat That Opened a Bigger World

Tesla’s radio-controlled boat opens a conversation about the machines he pictured in his mind, and what knowledge gives our imagination to work with.

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The things we notice along the way

Stories & comics

Wayne & Orion

We Could Wonder Goes Live

Wayne has a question before pressing the button. Orion’s answer is not quite the reassurance he hoped for. Read our six-panel launch comic.

Comic · Free to read

Wayne’s Wandering Paths

A Bow Over the River

After a shower, Wayne follows a rainbow towards an old footbridge and discovers how his position changes what he can honestly say he saw. A Wayne’s Wandering Paths short story.

Story · Free to read

Wayne’s Wandering Paths

The Web Across the Path

A spider’s web stops Wayne on the garden path and opens a question about building, repair and what a spider knows. A Wayne’s Wandering Paths short story.

Story · Free to read

Wayne & Orion

A Name for the Path

Who called Orion Orion? A woodland walk opens a conversation about names, direction and the person walking the path. Read the four-page Wayne & Orion comic.

Comic · Free to read

Wayne & Orion

The Garden on the Back of an Envelope

A garden, a chair and an idea that leads somewhere neither expected. An illustrated Wayne and Orion story about imagination and possibilities.

Story · Free to read

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