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

1. Netflix's documentary thriller Icarus (available on Netflix) is one of the most gripping documentaries I've seen. Filmmaker and cyclist Bryan Fogel set out to make a documentary on doping in cycling and ends up uncovering the biggest doping scandal of all time. I highly recommend you watch it!

2. Following on from Five Things #68, another mind blowing optical illusion!

3. You make solid, rational decisions... right? 20 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Your Decisions

4. Brighten someone's day: Waves are free.

5. This week's music recommendation is Haunt by Rival Consoles. If you like it, check out his album Howl (it's one of my favourite albums).

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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. Prepare to have your mind blown! I love a good optical illusion and this is one of the best I've seen.

2. An interesting and thought provoking article on The War on Reason.

3. If you spend much time on the internet, you'll have probably noticed that on huge swathes of it civil debate appears to be a thing of the past. This Brain Pickings article on How to Criticize with Kindness might come in handy. — "let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.”

4. Socrates would like a quick word: Philosophy Infomercial.

5. This week's music recommendation is actually a podcast about a piece of music. In this week's episode of Song Exploder, Annie Clark (aka St.Vincent) breaks down her song New York. (A warning, it contains some explicit language!) 

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ps. I'm taking a week off next week as I'll be on holiday. But fear not, Five Things will return the following week!

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

1. Episode #1 of Radiotopia's new mini-series Ways Of Hearing explores how digital audio changes our experience of music and time. If you are a musician or big music fan, I think you'll love it.

2. Austin Kleon hits the nail on the head in his post You can be woke without waking up to the news. Give it a try, no phone, no social media and no news for the first couple of hours of your day.

   "A friend of mine said he didn’t know how long he could wake up to such horrible news every day. I suggested to him that he shouldn’t wake up to the news at all, and neither should anyone else. There’s almost nothing in the news that any of us need to read in the first hour (or two or three or four…) of our day."

3. This is quite the long-read, but if you are a big user of Facebook and have any concerns about your privacy, it's probably worth your time: You Are the Product.

4. I've just rediscovered James Clear's excellent blog. He has a wealth of articles exploring habits, thinking and learning. I found this one particularly interesting: Mental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways.

5. Over the last week, I've been making a concerted effort to listen to more albums by artists I like, that I've not really listened to previously. This week's music recommendation is Blanck Mass' self-titled album, which in spite of liking their other music, I'd neglected to listen to at all!

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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. What a treasure trove! Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks have been digitised and made available only by the British Library.
    
2. A pretty useful concept, understanding your Circle of Competence.
    
3. An amazing collection of drone photos from National Geographic.
    
4. I think I'm going to agree with Keith here, this is the best video ever.
    
5. This week's musical is Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano's soundtrack to the game Everything. The whole project is pretty incredible, click to learn more about the game or watch the trailer (it's worth watching!).

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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. A diver's worst nightmare. How he remained calm is beyond me!
    
2. Albert Einstein's advice to his son on how to learn.
    
3. There are some things that you just can't unsee. At least in this case they're pretty funny!
    
4. If you are learning a foreign language (or want to), this is a great list that will help supercharge your learning. I'm putting as much of it into practice as I can as I continue my quest to learn German!
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is Islands by The XX. I'd forgotten how good their first album is! 

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