Cromer 2

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

1. A great post on how to learn more effectively: Let Go of the Learning Baggage.
    
2. Vantablack is very black: "Vantablack is a substance made of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays and is the blackest artificial substance known, absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum."
    
3. A cool time-lapse video of the Milky Way shot from an airplane cockpit.
    
4. An interesting interview on How Creativity Drives Human Evolution with the author and anthropologist Augustín Fuentes. — "What's distinctive about humans is that we can imagine something and then make it real."
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is So It Goes by the ambient musician and composer Greg Haines. If you like this, check out his albums "Where We Were" and "Moments Eluding".

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Cromer

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

1. A great comic by The Oatmeal on changing your mind and the "backfire effect". 
    
2. Today is a great day to learn something new, so why not check out Khan Academy. There are short, well explained video lessons on pretty much everything.... and it's completely free!
    
3. Prepare to be amazed... The Mysterious Glass. 
    
4. An interesting series of videos on how Japanese Samurai swords are made. The craftsmanship and time that goes into making each sword is mind-blowing. 
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is Ólafur Arnalds' Living Room Songs. The link goes to the film that accompanied the album, which includes behind the scenes footage about the project (as well as the music). The album was recorded over one week, with each song being recorded, filmed and edited in one day, and then released online the following morning. An amazing project and great music.

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It's a Baileygram

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

1. You can now explore the world from the comfort of your home. The new Google Earth is really amazing. Check out the "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature if you don't know where to explore first.
    
2. An interesting long read on What Makes a Genius?
    
3. Emoji as gargoyles... "In classical architecture they used heads of the king or whatever, and they put that on the façade . . . So we were thinking, what can we use as an ornament so when you look at this building in 10 or 20 years you can say ‘hey this is from that year!’"
    
4. An animated primer on How to Meditate. If you haven't tried meditating, I'd encourage you to give it a try. It's probably easier to get started than you think it is.
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is The Köln Concert by the pianist Keith Jarrett. The improvised performance was recorded live at the Opera House in Cologne in 1975. It's worth reading the story behind the concert. At first Jarrett had refused to play due to a mix up with the piano he was supposed to play. 

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Copenhagen

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

1. A vending machine unlike any other — Japanese origami vending machine makes news around the country
    
2. Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories and a related article on the shapes of stories as identified by a computer.
    
3. Eerie is definitely the correct choice of word to describe this. (Great choice of music for the soundtrack)  — The eerie otherworldliness of slow undersea life sped up to a human pace
    
4. Guilty of using terrible passwords? Have a read of this. A good primer on Two-Factor Authentication from Teen Vogue of all places! 
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is Gimme Sympathy by Metric. I'm surprised more people haven't heard of them. If you like this song, it's well worth exploring their back catalogue. They have a lot of good tunes!

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Dreaming of Summer #2

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

1. A two-part conversation between Adam Buxton and Brian Eno. I'm a big fan of Adam Buxton's podcast and was delighted to hear him interview one of my heroes!
    
2. If you are trying to learn anything, read this.
    
3. For April Fools Day, Reddit launched a little experiment. It gave its users a blank canvas and the option to place a coloured pixel anywhere on it every few minutes. The result of the experiment is pretty cool...
    
4. A fascinating three-part series from Vox on the techniques and technology the BBC uses to make the Planet Earth series look so good. — Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is Pyrrhic by Julianna Barwick. The song comes from her excellent album Nepenthe.

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