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Learn to draw

How to Learn to Draw: Stage One, Manual Skills

Make a website

Interested in building a website, and want to do more than Squarespace, building from scratch isn't as hard as it may seem

Learn a language

Learning a language is one of those life goals. Maybe now's the time? Or maybe this is just a link to a site with 79 translations for "I am a turtle". I guess you'll just have to find out.

The reading list

Climate change: Top 10 tips to reduce carbon footprint revealed

MUJI GACHA

My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

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This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay

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McBroken: Every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US

Discover Masters' Projects, Post-Grads and Placements

Design Engineering Showcase

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell

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99% Invisible

This is a great podcast about design and architecture related things, focusing on the more behind the scenes stories, the 99% invisible. We particularly enjoyed episode 332, the Accidental Room, telling the story of a group of artists forced out of their house to make way for a shopping mall, and the peculiar place they moved to...

Addiction

Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong

Anthony Peterson

What I am learning from my white grandchildren -- truths about race

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

Abstract

A cool show on Netflix looking at the art of design and other interesting things for you creatives out there

The Social Dilemma

Tim Urban

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

Free Solo

How to gain control of your free time

There are 168 hours in each week. How do we find time for what matters most?

James Veitch

The agony of trying to unsubscribe