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

1. Super Mario Bros. with a full sized jazz big band, orchestra and choir — so cool! Here's another video where Charlie Rosen explains how he approached arranging the whole project.

2. The Verge Science channel on YouTube have been producing a tonne of great videos. This one on the causes of rising sea levels was particularly interesting.

3. An interesting read on the future of self driving and electric cars. Quite a headline too: "Why you have (probably) already bought your last car". Unfortunately I doubt it's true for me and my car!

4. A different perspective on self driving cars: "The Key to Autonomous Driving? An Impossibly Perfect Map".

5. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Spotify's release, Spotify has revealed its most-played tracks and artists over the last decade... And, not totally unsurprisingly, they're quite an uninspiring lists! Far too much Drake and Ed Sheeran for my liking!

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

1. What a photo, it looks like something straight out of the film Inception. It is in fact a street in Macau with the Grand Lisboa casino in the background. Quite surreal!

2. Don't you just love it when you start reading a book and you can't put it down? Ben MacIntyre's latest The Spy and the Traitor is one of those books. It tells the true story of a KGB double agent during the Cold War... I highly, highly recommend it.

3. An interesting video from the Kurzgesagt YouTube channel on how we could go about building a Moon base and colonising the Moon. It's kinda crazy something like this hasn't happened already seeing that the moon landing was all the way back in 1969!

4. I hope drummers and non-drummers will both equally appreciate this rather bizarre performance.

5. I've just discovered the musical duo Hannie and their loop videos. I particularly like this one and this one.

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

1. Serial, the hugely popular podcast that introduced many people to the existence of podcasts, is back with a third series! If you haven't heard the first series, you should listen to that too.

2. Some truly terrible knock knock jokes courtesy of a machine learning algorithm.

3. A great article/ interview with Nicolas Cage. He's an interesting guy, but I'm not convinced "Nicolas Cage", "greatest" and "actor" are words that should ever appear in the same sentence.

4. Well, I never knew that: Why we say “OK”

5. A collection of the winning photos from the 2018 Global Physics Photowalk competition. I think the photographer of the photo that won second place can feel a little hard done by!

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

1. It's like a time machine for your ears "Conserve the sound is an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a[n] analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life."

2. Watch out composers of generic ad music, AI is coming for your job!

3. I'm really enjoying the current series of the Crazy/Genius podcast (I also recommended one of their podcasts last week). In the most recent episode they explore the question Will We Ever Stop Eating Animal Meat? I love eating meat, but given facts like "animal farming takes up 30 percent of the earth’s landmass" and "livestock causes one-sixth of global greenhouse gas emissions" it's clear something needs to change. We need to seriously cut down on how much meat we eat or get comfortable with the alternatives, like lab grown meat... or crickets?

4. Another podcast recommendation — I listen to a lot of podcasts! BBC Radio 4's Intrigue: The Ratline investigates the disappearance of a senior Nazi who was indicted for mass murder. And if that doesn't quite sell it to you, how about this: "The Ratline is story of a curious death, political intrigue, spies, Nazi hunters, shadowy forces in the Vatican and a son grappling with the sins of his father". Intrigued?

5. Tyler Cowen on how to have a good conversation. I'm not a fan of small talk so his first point "have easy outs" would also make my list!

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

1. The Crazy/Genius podcast asks Can We Extend Human Lifespans to 150? If we can, my response is enthusiastically "yes please!"... Assuming that my body and brain will stay functional at that grand old age!

2. Two more podcast recommendations for you, both with Jaron Lanier (author of Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) on The Ezra Klein Show. They talk about virtual reality, the problems with our modern internet and social networks, politics and much more. Jaron comes across as a very thoughtful, insiteful and lovely human! Here's the first episode, and here's the second.

3. This is really interesting (well, to me anyway). Vox explains the surprising pattern behind colour names around the world.

4. The 2018 world population in one colourful map and some background info and facts to accompany it.

5. The problem of streaming, fake plays and the music charts. With Spotify, Apple Music and their algorithms serving up new music and relevant releases that they think you'll like, do people even pay attention to the charts any more?

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