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

1. Great episode of the After-On podcast with the endlessly fascinating Stewart Brand.

2. Derek Sivers on unlearning. I love the John Cage quote at the end of the piece: “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

3. When a podcast has the title ”Where are the aliens? Three new resolutions to the Fermi Paradox. And how we could easily colonise the whole universe” you know it’s going to be an interesting conversation!

4. The musical sophistication of… Ringtones?

5. A new single from Ólafur Arnalds. Looking forward to the release of his new album later this year.

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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. An interesting interview with the cartoonist and musician James Kochalka on being creative. Here's the video and my takeaways from watching it.

2. As well as being tiny, some viruses are rather scary looking!

3. Another fascinating episode of the After-On podcast where Rob Reid interviews George Church. They talk about DNA sequencing and editing, clean meat, anti-ageing research and much more.

4. Derek Sivers on goals: Detailed dreams blind you to new means

5. A magical musical moment from the Rock School I'm running this week. We get to work with some fantastic kids, so inspiring!

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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. I love these hyper-realistic portraits by Emanuele Dascanio.

2. More wisdom from Derek Sivers (everything he writes is fantastic): Rock stars have a boss?

3. A student at Oxford University captured a photo of a single atom with a normal camera. 

4. The best Rube Goldberg machine I've seen... and it only took 3 months to make!

5. I'm going to shut up about Nils Frahm after today's post. But as I'm seeing him play at the Barbican on Friday he can have one more mention! In this mini-documentary by Crack Magazine (only 12 minutes long), Nils talks about his creative process, his new studio and performs Sunson from his latest album.

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

1. Some midweek inspiration from Derek Sivers. — Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
    
2. A fascinating long read on a small group of people who never forget. My first instinct was that it must be like having a superpower, pretty cool! But can you imagine never forgetting anything? On reflection it sounds more like a curse. This quote stood out to me: "Memory is not about looking backwards, that is not why we have it. It’s there so that your past experiences will make you more adaptive in the here and now and in the future."
    
3. I've been listening to Note To Self's Privacy Paradox series. Which led me to the University Of Cambridge's Apply Magic Sauce personality prediction tool. As a test, I copied last week's Five Things post into the tool and it returned a scarily accurate description of my personality, and my correct age. It's disturbing to think how predictable we all are and how exploitable that makes us as we hand over so much personal data online. Advertisers must love it.
    
4. I really enjoyed Radiolab's latest podcast, Stranger in Paradise. It's the story of how a dead raccoon changed the history of Guadeloupe forever.
    
5. Following on from last week's musical recommendation. Here's another, Noveller performing No Dreams. 

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