Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. A great piece on learning. Aim for fluency, not just understanding.

2. Useful (short) video: This is how (not) to calm your nerves

3. I'm definitely guilty of this at times: "We tend to grossly overestimate the pleasure brought forth by new experiences and underestimate the power of finding meaning in current ones." The quote is from this excellent piece: Travel Is No Cure for the Mind.

4. Cool interactive website: www.populationspast.org. Explore demographic and social change using maps of the UK between 1851-1911. How far we've come in the last 100 years or so!

5. What I was listening to in April 🎶

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Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Nabi Tajima has died at the grand old age of 117. Imagining how the world changed over the course of her lifetime is rather mind blowing! — The last living human link to the 19th century is gone

2. A collection of aerial images of Britain from the last 100 years. Here's my hometown, Ipswich.

3. Stephen Fry has a podcast! His episode on the Guttenberg press was fascinating.

4. I'm really looking forward to watching the new series of Westworld (the last one was great). Food for thought in this piece by Sam Harris and Paul Bloom: It’s Westworld. What’s Wrong With Cruelty to Robots?

5. I've just discovered Jean-Michel Blais' music. I love this performance of his song Nostos. Oh how I wish I could play piano like that!

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Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. The language you speak influences the way you perceive colours: "learning a new language is like giving our brain the ability to interpret the world differently—including the way we see and process colors."

2. My new favourite Instagram: Things Organized Neatly.

3. The teacher that couldn't read. Fear is a powerful motivator.

4. All-white paintings are a thing? An expensive thing?!

5. Kendrick Lamar is now not only "the best musician of the 21st Century" but also a Pulitzer Prize winner for his latest album DAMN. (warning: Spotify rates the lyrics Explicit).

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Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. An interesting interview with the cartoonist and musician James Kochalka on being creative. Here's the video and my takeaways from watching it.

2. As well as being tiny, some viruses are rather scary looking!

3. Another fascinating episode of the After-On podcast where Rob Reid interviews George Church. They talk about DNA sequencing and editing, clean meat, anti-ageing research and much more.

4. Derek Sivers on goals: Detailed dreams blind you to new means

5. A magical musical moment from the Rock School I'm running this week. We get to work with some fantastic kids, so inspiring!

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Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. I hadn't listened to Adam Buxton's podcast in quite a while (silly me) so this rambling chat with film directors Wes Anderson and Garth Jennings was a good reminder of what I'd been missing!

2. This quote from a recent Austin Kleon post really jumped out at me: "if you really want to explore ideas in an environment conducive to good thinking, you should consider hanging out with 'people who are not so much like-minded as like-hearted,' people who are 'temperamentally disposed to openness and have habits of listening.'"

3. What an incredible man: Johan van Hulst, Who Helped Save 600 Children From the Nazis, Dies at 107

4. An interesting TED talk about how we experience and process emotions by Lisa Feldman Barrett.

5. 🎶 I'm really enjoying Poppy Ackroyd's latest album Resolve.

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