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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