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

1. Serial, the hugely popular podcast that introduced many people to the existence of podcasts, is back with a third series! If you haven't heard the first series, you should listen to that too.

2. Some truly terrible knock knock jokes courtesy of a machine learning algorithm.

3. A great article/ interview with Nicolas Cage. He's an interesting guy, but I'm not convinced "Nicolas Cage", "greatest" and "actor" are words that should ever appear in the same sentence.

4. Well, I never knew that: Why we say “OK”

5. A collection of the winning photos from the 2018 Global Physics Photowalk competition. I think the photographer of the photo that won second place can feel a little hard done by!

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

1. It's like a time machine for your ears "Conserve the sound is an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a[n] analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life."

2. Watch out composers of generic ad music, AI is coming for your job!

3. I'm really enjoying the current series of the Crazy/Genius podcast (I also recommended one of their podcasts last week). In the most recent episode they explore the question Will We Ever Stop Eating Animal Meat? I love eating meat, but given facts like "animal farming takes up 30 percent of the earth’s landmass" and "livestock causes one-sixth of global greenhouse gas emissions" it's clear something needs to change. We need to seriously cut down on how much meat we eat or get comfortable with the alternatives, like lab grown meat... or crickets?

4. Another podcast recommendation — I listen to a lot of podcasts! BBC Radio 4's Intrigue: The Ratline investigates the disappearance of a senior Nazi who was indicted for mass murder. And if that doesn't quite sell it to you, how about this: "The Ratline is story of a curious death, political intrigue, spies, Nazi hunters, shadowy forces in the Vatican and a son grappling with the sins of his father". Intrigued?

5. Tyler Cowen on how to have a good conversation. I'm not a fan of small talk so his first point "have easy outs" would also make my list!

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

1. The Crazy/Genius podcast asks Can We Extend Human Lifespans to 150? If we can, my response is enthusiastically "yes please!"... Assuming that my body and brain will stay functional at that grand old age!

2. Two more podcast recommendations for you, both with Jaron Lanier (author of Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) on The Ezra Klein Show. They talk about virtual reality, the problems with our modern internet and social networks, politics and much more. Jaron comes across as a very thoughtful, insiteful and lovely human! Here's the first episode, and here's the second.

3. This is really interesting (well, to me anyway). Vox explains the surprising pattern behind colour names around the world.

4. The 2018 world population in one colourful map and some background info and facts to accompany it.

5. The problem of streaming, fake plays and the music charts. With Spotify, Apple Music and their algorithms serving up new music and relevant releases that they think you'll like, do people even pay attention to the charts any more?

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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. Alex Honnold has moved on from mountains to climbing skyscrapers. How he maintains his cool whilst climbing so high without ropes is really incredible. Preparation is everything!

2. I love the idea of self-driving cars. A world where I don't need to own a car or drive myself is a world I'd love to live in! Sadly it sounds like I won't be living in that world any time soon. Solving all the problems to make self-driving cars a reality is really difficult. The latest episode of the Crazy/Genius podcast explores those problems.

3. Talking of cars... How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

4. Are you getting enough sleep?

5. Ah, so it is possible to have two songs sound similar and it not result in a lawsuit! — Why Prince Asked for Journey's Blessing Before Releasing 'Purple Rain'

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ps. From next week Five Things will be published on Tuesdays and not Wednesdays! So keep your eyes peeled next Tuesday! 👀

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

1. The story behind the cover of the Strokes' album Is This It.

2. I've often wondered how photo colourisation artists approach colourising old black and white photos. Well, now I know... Lots and lots of research!

3. A potentially handy list of mnemonics. 1 and 6 stand out as being particularly useful... For me at least!

4. Derek Siver's on the work needed to make a change.

5. 🎶 NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series featuring the legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

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