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 discussion on how products (like Facebook and Twitter) are being engineered to be addictive, the relationship between novelty and familiarity in making “a hit”, and how we’re encouraged to binge watch TV shows.
    
2. A cool video from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Sonder, The Realisation That Everyone Has A Story.
    
3. This list got me very excited, a treasure trove of great music: The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time.
    
4. They were ghastly at the time, but to say they haven't aged well is quite the understatement: 13 "Changing Rooms" Designs That Really Haven't Aged That Well.
    
5. This week’s musical recommendation is Grapevine Fires by Death Cab for Cutie, I really like that drum beat.

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A running joke.

Here are the five things I thought were worth sharing this week: 

1. An interesting read on the benefits of silence — This Is Your Brain on Silence
    
2. Fantastic podcast by Invisibilia on how our frame of reference shapes how we perceive the world — "Alix Spiegel and Hanna Rosin interview a woman who gets a glimpse of what she's been missing all her life – and then loses it."
    
3. Are you a procrastinator? If yes, go check out Wait But Why's great series on procrastination. Do it now... Future You will thank Present You for it! Here's the first post.
    
4. This album by Rival Consoles was one of my favourite releases of 2015. I hadn't listened to it ages until yesterday!
    
5. One of my favourite musicians Ólafur Arnalds is doing this awesome project — "Over seven weeks, he's travelling to seven different locations in his native Iceland to record and release a series of new compositions. At every location he's collaborating with a local artist or group to create and perform a new song which is then released each Monday."

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I came across this fascinating article and podcast on the black market of illegal records made from used X-Rays in Soviet Russia. I highly recommend you have a read or listen.

"The records themselves were low-tech affairs, cut from their rectilinear forms into rough circles with scissors, then burned out in the center with a cigarette so they could be seated on turntables. Covert salesmen would sell them on the street, the “bone music” hidden within their trench coats."

Read more: www.99percentinvisible.org/episode/bone-music