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

1. Marc Maron interviewed drumming legend Steve Jordan on his WTF Podcast. They talk about music, drumming, Steve's background and his collaborations with Keith Richards, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry... I could go on, he's played with pretty much everyone!

2. J.K Rowling on tolerance and free speech.

3. One of many stunning photos of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno probe and edited by Sean Doran. Being able to see Jupiter in such detail is an amazing thing.

4. A good post on how to get more out of what you read.

5. This week's music recommendation is actually a collaboration between the podcast Song Exploder (one of my favourites) and Google called Inside Music. The experiment lets you explore the different musical layers of a number of songs, recombining them as you see fit. Pretty cool!

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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. Prepare to have your mind blown! I love a good optical illusion and this is one of the best I've seen.

2. An interesting and thought provoking article on The War on Reason.

3. If you spend much time on the internet, you'll have probably noticed that on huge swathes of it civil debate appears to be a thing of the past. This Brain Pickings article on How to Criticize with Kindness might come in handy. — "let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.”

4. Socrates would like a quick word: Philosophy Infomercial.

5. This week's music recommendation is actually a podcast about a piece of music. In this week's episode of Song Exploder, Annie Clark (aka St.Vincent) breaks down her song New York. (A warning, it contains some explicit language!) 

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ps. I'm taking a week off next week as I'll be on holiday. But fear not, Five Things will return the following week!

"Unloved"

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

1. Interesting work by Sugata Mitra on bringing teaching into the 21st Century. —  "How one man revolutionized teaching by trusting kids to teach themselves."
    
2. "The photo shows the 14-story-tall first stage of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket moments before it landed on a barge at sea this past weekend" — If you hadn't gathered already it's a pretty cool photo!
    
3. Nerdwriter recently did a fascinating breakdown of one of Louis CK's jokes. I'd never really considered how much work goes into the writing and delivery of one joke.
    
4. The inspiring story of scientific marvel, Ed Whitlock — "In October, at 85, he set his latest distance-running record, completing the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes 34 seconds and becoming the oldest person to run 26.2 miles in under four hours."
    
5. In the latest episode of the Song Exploder podcast, Solange explains how she wrote and recorded her song "Cranes In The Sky". I love learning how different musicians approach songwriting and this was a really great episode. Recommended listening for anyone studying or making music!

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