We Love the Internet 2019/25: The Toilet study edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Magazine Writers Are Cashing In on Peak TV
• Welcome to the Era of Branded Engagements
• This is an ad targeted at millennials
• How RadioLab turns science into compelling stories
• Niche is the New Mainstream
• TikTok Is the New Music Kingmaker, and Labels Want to Get Paid
• LinkedIn is the New Craigslist

Reference points:

• The toilet study
• How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade

Longer reads:

• Inside Google’s Civil War
• The Empty Promise of Data Moats
• Why political journalism keeps getting it wrong
• When seeing is no longer believing
• Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Can you swim in Jello?
• The Human Foot Is a Design Disaster
• Selfie Fail Wave Wipeout
• Why Amazon Is Gobbling Up Failed Malls
• Intense Interstate Merging Fail

Things to look at/read:

• For a Split Second, a Quantum Computer Made History Go Backward
• YouTube apologies and reality TV revelations – the rise of the public confession
• Yes, This Photo from Everest Is Real
• The $500m smiley face business
• Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

Animal corner:

• Warthog Doesn’t Realize the 7 Lions Behind It!
• Bird Believes He’s a Phone Alarm
• It’s peliCAN not peliCAN’T

Tweets of the week:

• This is so satisfying to watch
• Look at this guy smash his own nuts by crossing his legs.
• This is how to make a DaVinci bridge
• Wowww just had to unfollow OJ. He’s funny on twitter but give him a google and you will NOT like him anymore
• i never in my life thought i’d see michelle obama hit harry styles in the dick with a dodgeball but hey god works in mysterious ways
• do people even hear themselves
• “I think I’m feeling it, yeah”
• At the rate I am now convinced I have been breathing all wrong

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
• Carly Rae Jepsen And The Rise Of The Micro Pop Star
• How The Milwaukee Bucks And A Former Wedding DJ Won The T-Shirt Cannon Arms Race
• The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die
• Impossible Foods’ rising empire of almost-meat
• The Curious History of Crap—From Space Junk to Actual Poop
• Why Leonardo da Vinci’s brilliance endures, 500 years after his death
• Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden

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