Šibenik, Croatia - July, 2018

This week’s Five Things…

1. “The Killers’ Mr Brightside has set a new chart record, after spending 260 weeks - or five whole years - in the UK’s Top 100.” 🤯

2. I really enjoyed this mini series on conspiracy theories by The Panpsycast podcast.

3. Eat less meat! — Your Diet Is Cooking the Planet

4. Don’t try this at home. How to safely remove bees from an old shed.

5. Max Richter has a new album!

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Berlin, April 2015

This week’s Five Things…

1. National Theatre’s film/theatre hybrid Romeo & Juliet was excellent! If you missed it, it’s on again on Sky Arts on Thursday at 10pm.

2. I really enjoyed this episode of Ryan Holliday’s Daily Stoic podcast with Agnes Callard on Socrates and Wisdom.

3. Can you steer a ship through the Suez Canal?

4. This clever little music app can isolate different instruments in a song. Upload a music file (like an mp3), and you get back a drum track, vocal track etc. It’s not perfect but still very impressive. I’m sure I’ll find it very useful when transcribing songs!

5. This is a very weird story: I tracked down my impostor

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Split, Croatia - July 2018

This week’s Five Things…

1. Adam Buxton interviews Kazuo Ishiguro. My new favourite episode of Adam’s podcast.

2. An AI’s attempt at pickup lines. Picking a favourite is tough but it might be this one: “I love you. I don’t care if you’re a doggo in a trenchcoat.”

3. I want a Plantyflutesizer!

4. The Depths Of Wikipedia instagram account is dedicated to highlighting the weirdest and most wonderful parts of Wikipedia. Did you know that “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in English?

5. Nils Frahm has a surprise new/old album. Graz was recorded in 2009 but was released yesterday to mark Piano Day 2021.

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Malta, July 2019

This week’s Five Things…

1. Amazing photos and drone footage of the Icelandic volcano eruption. The live stream is pretty cool too — maybe cool isn’t the right word to describe a volcano?

2. What would happen if the world turned into gold? Kurzgesagt have all the answers.

3. Six degrees of Wikipedia. It only takes three Wikipedia pages to get from Tchaikovsky to Cream Cheese.

4. You might have seen on the news recently that songwriters aren’t very happy with streaming services right now. The Price of Song explains why.

5. George Harrison and Paul McCartney’s isolated vocals from Something. So good!

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Ipswich, July 2019

This week’s Five Things…

1. Some useful pointers if you’re learning a new language

2. The robots are coming for jazz drummers’ jobs

3. Talking of drummers. Email drumfill@hey.com and see what happens

4. Ian Leslie’s newsletter is always interesting. His latest one, How To Think Like Bayes, was particularly good

5. Some very useful advice on how to learn a language

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