Hi, I am Lénaïc. I am a kind of researcher-explorer. More about me and my work >

To share my experiments, I write Mésange, a weekly ‘popup’ newsletter.

It is a short-lived newsletter series of 26 letters, that I send to my gracious readers every Sunday, from October 2022 to March 2023.

Each letter is a short story of 5-10 min read, telling one of my — hopefully elegant — experiments.

Each story is inspired by my life and explorations. I craft each one meticulously to offer inspiration, joy, wisdom!

Each story is a surprise, even for me. The next one may be about one of my preferred topics, like permaculture, nature, craftsmanship, autonomy, psychology, philosophy, the mysteries of life… Who knows?

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ˇᨆ   Mésange. One experiment a week for six months

Sent from October 2022 to March 2023. What is Mésange?

• 2023 Mar 26 — experiment ongoing…
• 2023 Mar 19 — How to lacto-ferment daikon radish? A one-ingredient fermentation recipe — 2
• 2023 Mar 12 — How to drill bamboo? — 3
• 2023 Mar 5 — How to split bamboo into flat slats? — 4
• 2023 Feb 26 — How to build a bamboo house in the Amis people’s style from Taiwan? — 5
• 2023 Feb 5, 12, 19 — 9 unusual and elegant gardening techniques — 8, 7, 6
• 2023 Jan 29 — How proteins are digested, step by step — 9
• 2023 Jan 22 — What’s the surface area of the digestive tract? A visual synthesis — 10
• 2023 Jan 15 — 12 delicious Taiwanese food, along with farming and cooking facts — 11
• 2023 Jan 8 — Where can I find low exposure to electromagnetic radiation in a city? — 12
• 2023 Jan 1 — Using pollard trees as ‘living walls’ to create agroecological structures? — 13
• 2022 Dec 25 — A mysterious energetic treatment in Taiwan. Yet, powerful — 14
• 2022 Dec 18 — Battens instead of posts for a lighter tiny house wood frame — 15
• 2022 Dec 11 — Literary wanderings — 16
• 2022 Dec 4 — Acorn tempeh. Using Rhizopus fermentation to reduce tannin content? — 17
• 2022 Nov 27 — Acorns, tannins, and humans. Preparing acorns as food — 18
• 2022 Nov 20 — Acorns and their germination. A contemplative exploration — 19
• 2022 Nov 13 — The outdoor pantry of our tiny house — 20
• 2022 Nov 6 — Let’s try to think like an ecosystem. An essay on ‘invasive plants’ — 21
• 2022 Oct 30 — ˇᨆ Welcome to Mésange. A letter series, from Oct 2022 to Mar 2023 — 22
• 2022 Oct 23 — Visualizing the electromagnetic fields around my laptop — 23
• 2022 Oct 16 — Observing a dog’s behavior teaches me one way to channel strong emotions — 24
• 2022 Oct 9 — I made a 5-function drop lid in wood (otoshi buta) — 25
• 2022 Oct 2 — Our tiny house: 6 m2, 1 ton, 3000 euros — 26