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

1. How big are asteroids? Far bigger than I imagined! — Asteroid sizes vs New York

2. If you visit York, here are a few foodie recommendations: Skosh (you won’t regret it), Partisan, Phranakhon. Not recommendations of the edible variety but the National Railway Museum and York Minster are both excellent. Go to York, you'll love it!

3. I relate to all of this. I like to have at least one fiction and a non-fiction on the go, maybe an audiobook too. — On reading more than one book at a time

4. An interesting overview of how global populations may change in the next 30 years or so — A 2020 Overview of Global Population Trends

5. Max Richter plays NPR’s Tiny Desk. Excellent as always. He played the Barbican last week, quite annoyed I missed it! — Max Richter Tiny Desk Concert

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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. People listen to happier music in summer and sadder music in winter (except at Christmas time), which isn't really surprising. What is surprising, is that Australia and New Zealand follow the same trend as the countries in the Northern Hemisphere despite having the opposite weather. Very interesting! — Data from Spotify suggest that listeners are gloomiest in February / Rob Wiblin's summary

2. Writer and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe has made a series of Bojack Horseman-themed posters to celebrate the end of the series for this year’s Oscars. I particularly like the one for Once Upon A Time In Hollywoo (that isn't a typo!) — Bojack Oscar Posters

3. If you haven't seen 1917, I'd recommend you see it whilst it's still in cinemas. It's one of those films that's made for the big screen*.* If you have seen it, this video gives a nice glimpse of the VFX wizardry that made the film possible — How '1917' Was Filmed To Look Like One Shot

4. Very cool — The Stepping Feet Illusion

5. I didn't really know anything about Nike or their co-founder Phil Knight but this was an excellent autobiography. I bought the audiobook ages ago and I'm glad I finally got around to listening to it! — Shoe Dog, A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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ps. There will be no Five Things next week, but usual service will resume the following Tuesday.

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

1. I finally got around to watching the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. The whole thing was excellent, the perfect series. If it wasn't so harrowing I'd be up for watching it again! The accompanying podcast series was also very good. If you've watched the series definitely have a listen — Chernobyl (series) / The Chernobyl Podcast

2. Elise Trouw's live looping covers are so good. Isn't it annoying how talented some people are? — Radiohead Meets The Police - Live Looping Mashup by Elise Trouw

3. Another great iOS game from Zach Gage — Early iPhone hit SpellTower gets reimagined a decade later

4. An interesting Twitter thread on problems arising from the use of VAR (Video Assistant Referee) in football matches — Daisy Christodoulou on VAR

5. Interesting fact: "Each year, about 15% of queries on Google have never been searched for before" — Facts from The Browser

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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'm currently reading Bill Bryson’s fascinating book A Short History of Nearly Everything. This quote blew my mind: “stretch your arms to their fullest extent and imagine that width as the entire history of the Earth. On this scale … the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, ‘and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.’” — A Short History of Nearly Everything

2. Use your new powers wisely — How to Sing in Tune

3. A great little video of Walt Disney demoing the multiplane camera. From Wikipedia: “The multiplane camera is a motion-picture camera used in the traditional animation process that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another. This creates a sense of parallax or depth.” — Walt Disney's demonstration of the Multiplane Camera in 1957

4. This is cool/ clever — Maps of Every Single Street in Any City (Here is Ipswich)

5. Rules that I should probably do a better job of following — George Orwell's rules for writing

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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 surprisingly addictive daily word game. The name makes the game quite self explanatory — Guess My Word

2. Well, this is totally terrifying. Wouldn't it wonderful to live in a world where people thought through the consequences of their money making schemes? — The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

3. What an amazing project. Though I’m not sure that I’d want a record of what I’ve looked like EVERY day! My vanity couldn't take it — Noah takes a photo of himself every day

4. A clever Für Elise inspired poster by Christoph Niemann — How To Please Elise

5. You need a whole sentence to express yourself in one language, where a single word may suffice in another. Isn't language a wonderful thing? — Eunoia: Words that don’t translate

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