This Spotify plug-in tells you just how obscure your music taste really is
Is it better to exercise for longer or to exercise more vigorously?
What people eat when they eat alone (there’s some real gold in the comments)
There’s a new doco on Netflix about the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and it looks so good
… and some other trailers that are getting us excited for summer film season: Meryl Streep chases insurance fraudsters in The Laundromat. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver laugh, fight, screw and swear their way through Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Edward Norton plays his first juicy lead role in over four years in Motherless Brooklyn. Three blonde Oscar-nominated actresses walk into an elevator in Bombshell. Vanessa has watched the Little Women trailer approximately 43 times. And Timothée Chalamet is playing Henry V. Enough said.
Life advice, according to Hunter S Thompson (“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”)
Lizzie’s had the new Haim release on repeat this week
A love letter to the em dash (“The longest of the dashes — roughly the length of the letter “M” — the em dash is emphatic, agile and still largely undefined. Sometimes it indicates an afterthought. Other times, it’s a fist pump. You might call it the bad boy, or cool girl, of punctuation. A freewheeling scofflaw. A rebel without a clause.”)
The woman who was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner at Stanford University has identified herself – and she’s writing a memoir
Conversations about navigating money in relationships
An oldie but a goodie: the secret plan for Queen Elizabeth’s death
Follow the New Yorker's poetry bot and it will send you a little ditty each day
The Every Little Thing podcast interviewed two pilots who answered (almost) everything you ever wanted to know about air travel. You will also never put your elbows on a tray table ever again after listening to this
This video of a millipede walking will give you life (you’ll want the sound on for this one)
