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

1. I'm currently reading Bill Bryson’s fascinating book A Short History of Nearly Everything. This quote blew my mind: “stretch your arms to their fullest extent and imagine that width as the entire history of the Earth. On this scale … the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, ‘and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.’” — A Short History of Nearly Everything

2. Use your new powers wisely — How to Sing in Tune

3. A great little video of Walt Disney demoing the multiplane camera. From Wikipedia: “The multiplane camera is a motion-picture camera used in the traditional animation process that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another. This creates a sense of parallax or depth.” — Walt Disney's demonstration of the Multiplane Camera in 1957

4. This is cool/ clever — Maps of Every Single Street in Any City (Here is Ipswich)

5. Rules that I should probably do a better job of following — George Orwell's rules for writing

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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. A surprisingly addictive daily word game. The name makes the game quite self explanatory — Guess My Word

2. Well, this is totally terrifying. Wouldn't it wonderful to live in a world where people thought through the consequences of their money making schemes? — The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

3. What an amazing project. Though I’m not sure that I’d want a record of what I’ve looked like EVERY day! My vanity couldn't take it — Noah takes a photo of himself every day

4. A clever Für Elise inspired poster by Christoph Niemann — How To Please Elise

5. You need a whole sentence to express yourself in one language, where a single word may suffice in another. Isn't language a wonderful thing? — Eunoia: Words that don’t translate

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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. Peter Singer's influential book on addressing global poverty and effective charitable giving, The Life You Can Save, has been re-released for its 10 year anniversary. You can download the ebook or audiobook for free. The audiobook is very well done with chapters read by the likes of Stephen Fry, Kristen Bell and Michael Schur. It's quite the inspiring read — The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

2. And on a related note, GiveWell (mentioned several times in The Life You Can Save), are an amazing organisation that carries out research to establish the most effective charities. They have a list on their website of their currently top rated charities with links to donate — GiveWell

3. Question (and answer) of the day — Why do Puffins have big beaks?

4. This is a very good list by Anne-Laure Le Cunff — 30 life lessons I learned before turning 30

5. It's that annoying time of year when ALL of the best films are released, so the next few weeks might contain a few film recommendations! Last week I saw Jojo Rabbit, directed and written by Taika Waititi, which was excellent. Pretty much everything Taika Waititi does is great. The highlight of the film was easily 12-year-old Roman Griffin Davis's acting. That kid can act! — Jojo Rabbit

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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. I've finally finished reading Range by David Epstein (the “finally” being no fault of the author). The book explores the benefits of being a generalist and dangers of hyper-specialisation through the lens of musicians, athletes, scientists and business people. Well worth a read. — Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

2. This post by Austin Kleon has really stuck with me. My mission for 2020... to have fun! — Who’s having fun?

3. Something to think about at the start of a new year/ decade — Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes.

4. Another excellent list from Tom Whitwell. He writes one every year and they are always packed with interesting facts — 52 things I learned in 2019

5. This is a vision of the future that I find very exciting. Cities designed for humans and not cars! — What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?

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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. This is a fantastic app for pro and amateur musicians alike. Get looping! — AudioKit L7 LIVE LOOPER

2. A couple of very interesting podcast interviews with Peter Singer — Peter Singer on the lives you can save / Peter Singer on being provocative, EA, how his moral views have changed, & rescuing children drowning in ponds

3. Carl Sagan was very good explaining things — How the Greeks figured out the Earth was round

4. An illusion well worth its title — The Best Optical Illusion of the Year for 2019

5. We share up to 99% of our DNA, and both like Instagram. We really aren't so different! — Chimpstagram: video of ape browsing app goes viral – but what is going on?

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ps. This is the last Five Things of the year. See you in 2020!