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Infectious Music

Mathematicians at the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind in Canada studied the download patterns of music from MixRadio and found that their spread matches the patterns seen in the spread of infectious diseases. Interestingly, they found that metal and dance music is not infectious and electronica is the most infectious.

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Fastest Growing Jobs For The Next Decade

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Visual Capitalist put together a huge infographic projecting the fastest and slowest growing jobs over the next decade. Bad news for street vendors, good news for wind turbine technicians.

Business

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AI Movie Posters

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Noah Veltman used AI to generate a series of movie posters based on a brief text description of each movie, and they are glorious!

AI & ML

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Higher Order Interactions & Hypergraphs

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Quanta Magazine published an interesting article on the new frontiers of graph theory within computer science where big data is starting the stretch the capabilities of regular graphs in favour of, in some circumstances, hyper-graphs and higher order interactions to better model and analyse relationships within the highly connected data.

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Innovation

Tech

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Cognitive Bias

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Designhacks.co created a lovely infographic showcasing all 188 cognitive biases, which is showcased by Visual Capitalist.

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Life

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Ecommerce Navigation UX Tips

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Baymard Institute published another great UX post on the top pitfalls found in ecommerce navigation that negatively affect a user's experience. Categories are key!

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Web Dev

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Hidden Melodies of Subways

The New York Times published a nice piece showcasing the hidden melodies of subway train announcements and sounds.

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Music

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Billboard Number 1 Songs

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Enjoy hours of entertainment by listening to this cool music player that plays through every Billboard number 1 song for the amount of weeks each song was in the top spot.

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History

Music

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Singer Vocabularies

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Word Tips analysed the vocabularies used by 100 modern pop stars and the 100 greatest singers of all time to see who uses the most words. Patti Smith and Billie Eilish came out on top with 217 and 169 unique words per 1000.

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Music

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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their sixth assessment report that projects five climate emergency scenarios based on current and future global emissions. The report shows that a 1.5 degree temperature increase is already locked in, and can only be reduced in the future if we hit net zero emissions by 2025. If the planet reaches net zero emission just after 2030, we are guaranteed a 2+ degree increase until after 2050.

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Environment

Life

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