Five Things #181

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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