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

1. A interesting video exploring how much music is worth.

2. If you use Instagram you're probably familiar with the term Influencer. Influencers are people with large followings that make a living touting various products to their fans for very large sums of money. Often without revealing their endorsements have been paid for. What a sleazy business.

3. A great headline: Scientists unravel secret of cube-shaped wombat faeces and an even better opening paragraph: “Of all the many mysteries that surround the common wombat, it is hard to find one as baffling as its ability – broadly acknowledged as unique in the natural world – to produce faeces shaped like cubes.”

4. I don't think I really appreciated the genius of the London Tube Map. Fascinating video.

5. An amazing collection of images: Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before

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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. A band from L.A. booked a European tour by deceiving music venues into thinking they had a large fan base, when in fact they had no fan base at all. Unsurprisingly, when no one turned up to the shows people got a little bit suspicious. It turns out "the band" was just one guy and that he'd set up a fake booking agent and record label to arrange the tour. The whole story is nuts. Bands often big themselves up to impress their fans and to book better gigs, but this is something else. How on earth did he think he'd get away with it?!

2. A great episode of the Reply All podcast, The Snapchat Thief. If you aren't using a password manager and an app for two factor authentication on your accounts, this should convince you to reconsider that!

3. Part 1 of a fascinating four-part investigation by Der Spiegel into how Manchester City and its owners broke UEFA's financial fair play rules.

4. I really like Vox's Earworm series on Youtube. This is my favourite episode to date: Jazz Deconstructed: John Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

5. The Beatles have released a 50th anniversary edition of the White Album and it's HUGE (107 songs on Spotify). Enjoy!

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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. Rob Reid's After-On podcast very quickly became one of my favourites. I subscribe to far more podcasts than I could dream to listen to, but I always listen to After-On. His most recent episode with Laurie Santos was on the science of happiness, listen to it! You'll learn a ton.

2. This story is kinda difficult to summarise in a paragraph... Lil Miquela is a bot and social media influencer with over a million followers on Instagram. She admits to not being real and was once hacked and replaced by a Trump fan. It's all a bit strange but makes for an interesting read. 2018 is weird.

3. Food for thought from Seth Godin. Are you the world's worst boss?

4. An interesting breakdown of the music theory behind David Wise's Donkey Kong Country soundtracks. One for the music nerds!

5. A great Bowie quote on creativity (click through for the longer quote): "I learned that mixing elements of bad taste with good would often produce the most interesting results…. It wasn’t so much about how I felt about things, but rather, how things around me felt."

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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. This isn't a particularly fun read but it's well worth reading: This Is How We Radicalized The World

2. Merriam-Webster have a fun new tool called Time Traveler which allows you to find when words or phrases first appeared in print by year. My birth year, 1988, was clearly a golden year: "Channel surfing", "emo", "JPEG", "mad cow disease", "mosh pit", "unibrow".

3. Tiny books that fit in one hand might be the future of physical books! They look pretty cool but I'll be sticking with my Kindle for now — which you can also use to read with one hand!

4. An interesting piece on how AI is being used in music. It's hard to imagine that AI composers will ever totally replace human composers, but it'll be just another tool in a composers tool kit.

5. On a related note... Ólafur Arnalds recently explained how he's been experimenting with using algorithms to augment his music: "The idea behind this is not to create a computer that makes music for me, it's to create an instrument that I'm playing". Here's his performance on NPR's Tiny Desk series.

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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. I've been on a good run with books recently. Last week I started and finished Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. The book investigates the rapid rise and fall of the blood testing startup Theranos and it's founder Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos was a company built on lies, deception and a dangerous disregard for good science. It's an astonishing story.

2. A great profile of Eric Barone the one man team behind the popular indie video game Stardew Valley: "It took him four and a half years to design, program, animate, draw, compose, record, and write everything in the game, working 12-hour days, seven days a week. His budget was the part-time wage he made as an evening usher at the local stage theater."

3. A slightly different profile, this time of the world's oldest hairdresser, Anthony Mancinelli, he's 107 and still cutting hair full time. What a guy!

4. How could this not bring a smile to your face? The Super Mario Bros. Overworld and Underworld themes played on the marimba.

5. Metric have a new album called Art of Doubt and it's very good! A few tracks to check out if you don't have time to dive into the whole album: Dark Saturday, Art of Doubt, Die Happy.

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