Interesting things

An ever growing curated list of things I find interesting from the internet and beyond.

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

https://fs.blog/2018/12/spacing-effect/

from the Farnam Street Blog

What Am I Going To Do With My Life??

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dM-XIIarWt3PsHxFi_B92-pYc1Xjh80AJZR93Ogt02g/edit?usp=sharing

by Millie Tran

The Next Bechdel Test

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/next-bechdel/

by Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze, Rachael Dottle & Gus Wezerek.

Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting

By Tony Szhou & Taylor Ramos

https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc

My Day With Leo

Created by Joel Strong

https://www.instagram.com/mydaywithleo/?hl=en

The World According to Jeff Goldblum

by Anna Peele

https://www.gq.com/story/jeff-goldblum-the-oral-history

'Plagiarists never do it once': meet the sleuth tracking down the poetry cheats

by Will Storr

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/09/poetry-plagiarism-copying-maya-angelou-ira-lightman-will-storr

Sesame Street: Patti Labelle Sings The Alphabet

The joys of hanging out with my baby nephew is that I get to see Sesame Street with a new perspective. This is joy.

I Bullshitted My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week

By Oobah Butler

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/59d8v5/i-bullshitted-my-way-to-the-top-of-paris-fashion-week?utm_campaign=sharebutton

The Bowery Boys

NYC history podcast.

http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/

Chiropractic treatment, a $15-billion industry, has its roots in a ghost story

Written by David Lazarus

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-chiropractic-quackery-20170630-story.html

Real talk - I see a chiropractor and have done for a long time. Not sure about the science of it all but I do enjoy having my back massaged and sometimes my Chiro plays the bagpipes to me.

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

by Tim Hartford

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads

'Fleabag' Creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Being Pigeonholed as a "Feminist Writer"

By Annie Howard

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fleabag-creator-phoebe-waller-bridge-being-pigeonholed-as-a-feminist-writer-comedy-showrunner-roundt-1011449

The Z List Dead List

Created by Iszi Lawrence.

http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/

Schitt's Creek

Didn't expect this series to be as amazing as it is. You can watch it on Netflix.

The Truth About Poo

by Annalisa Barbieri

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/18/truth-about-poo-doing-it-wrong-giulia-enders-squatting

10 things you didn't know about orgasm | Mary Roach

Life is a Crypt

Shot on location, Chicago, USA. 2015.

Try - Rvby My Dear

Watch now on Youtube