les contes du quotidien

Le site Object Lessons met en mots érudits les objets et actions du quotidien. 

Ce sont des petits contes de format court, remplis de connaissances et souvent teintés d'humour, 

qui interrogent et décortiquent les usages les plus banals, les gestes machinaux, les evidences, la normalité.  

Object Lessons is an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things, from limbos to nerds, passwords to radicals. 

only in English unfortunately !

http://objectsobjectsobjects.com/essays/

quelques exemples 

HOW TEA HELPED WOMEN SELL SUFFRAGE

Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Today’s activists might learn from their model.

HOW THE 50-MM LENS BECAME ‘NORMAL’

It’s often called the optic that best approximates human vision, but approximation is relative.

HUMANKIND’S MOST IMPORTANT MATERIAL

Glass has changed the world like no other substance, but people usually overlook it.