This week’s Five Things…

1. "Red kites can now be seen in most English counties with an estimated 10,000 birds in the UK, including 1,800 breeding pairs." An amazing comeback for Red Kites, I'm pretty sure I saw one the other day over Sproughton.

2. Bath ballet?!

3. A strong contender for the oldest depiction of a drummer.

4. "with a conservative estimate of 14bn capsules being sold each year, and 0.9 grams of aluminium per capsule, that means 12,600 tonnes of Nespresso aluminium end up in landfill annually, enough for 60 Statues of Liberty." A not-so-fun fact from this long read on Nespresso and coffee.

5. I transcribed Beautifully Unconventional by Wolf Alice yesterday. 2 minutes 13 of indie-pop perfection.

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This week’s Five Things…

1. Lin-Manuel Miranda explains his writing process for the song One Shot from Hamilton.

2. I love this: Wild bison to return to UK for first time in 6,000 years

3. I like this vision of carless cities.

4. One for the drummers: Benny Greb (drummer and clinician extraordinaire) has released a metronome app called Gap Click. It’s not just any old metronome app. It has a number of cool tricks up its sleeve. My favourites being that you can set it to cycle between different rhythms (one bar on the beat, one bar on the offbeat) or switch between metronome and silence (one bar click, one bar no click).

5. Nadine Shah has a new album called Kitchen Sink. It's really good.

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This week’s Five Things…

1. A clever illusion that uses coloured lines to trick you into seeing a black and white photo in colour. This sort of thing always amazes me.

2. Food for thought from Ian Leslie's excellent newsletter: “if you never question the beliefs of your tribe then your ability to think for yourself withers away. That isn’t just bad for you, it’s bad for the collective intelligence of your group.”

3. We watched Hamilton on Disney+ yesterday. It's as good as everyone says it is!

4. I just finished reading Annie Lowrey's book Give People Money. The book explores the positive case for a universal basic income. I found it very persuasive. A UBI would be very expensive to implement, but could solve so many problems — for one, pretty much eliminating poverty overnight. That sounds like something worth aiming for!

5. This is for the drummers out there. I've been adding a lot of transcriptions to my website recently. If you'd like to get a brief update on new posts each week, you can subscribe here.

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This week’s Five Things…

1. I've recently started running. If you're feeling energetic and fancy giving it a go, I recommend the Nike Running Club app. The guided runs are great and the app provides useful info about your runs, so you can track your progress.

2. Food for thought from Seth Godin's blog: Should schools reward skills or talent?

3. These guys know how to juggle.

4. "Barcelona’s Liceu opera house reopened its doors on Monday for the first time in over three months to hold a concert - exclusively for a quiet, leafy audience of nearly 2,300 house plants". I hope the plants enjoyed the show!

5. To celebrate Glastonbury's 50 year anniversary the BBC have put together The Glastonbury Experience on iPlayer (100+ sets currently available to stream). The Foo Fighters 2017 performance is my favourite of the handful I've watched so far. They know how to put on a show!

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This week’s Five Things…

1. Very cool: "A circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge, to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain."

2. Basecamp has just launched a new privacy focused email service, HEY.com. It reimagines email in pretty much every way. So if you email me at some point, you might just get a response from my new @hey.com address!

3. Dave Grohl has picked up his pen to write another piece for The Atlantic. He's also started writing regularly on Medium.

4. Miniature synths by artist Dan McPharlin.

5. Hadn't listened to this in a while, Marks To Prove It by The Maccabees. Great album!

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