☀️ 15 things I learned this summer

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🔊 How sound makes digital journalism better
Digital journalism rarely asks us to listen. So I started collecting examples where sound becomes illustration, reporting material and even data.
 • Elia Kabanov
📈 My first experiments with data visualisation
For years, I was fascinated by data visualisation. This summer, I started making it myself.
 • Elia Kabanov
💉 7 things I learned last week
From millions of lives saved by vaccines to the mathematics of rivers, here are some fascinating things I learned this week.
 • Elia Kabanov
💬 10 facts I learned last week
In this week’s discoveries: why people may be talking less and what monkeys know about geometry.
 • Elia Kabanov
🦴 9 things I learned this week
From a fossil collected in Roman Britain to AI-generated bird sightings, here are nine things that caught my attention recently.
 • Elia Kabanov
🌡️ 7 ways science can help us survive extreme heat
Last month, a London event on extreme heat was cancelled because of extreme heat. That would be funny if the problem were not killing so many people.
 • Elia Kabanov
🧛‍♂️ 7 facts about Dracula, mammoths and bad bosses
Today’s newsletter covers ancient wine, Ice Age diets, toxic leadership, Hollywood ageism, foreign workers in China and why singing at work may be more…
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🐟 7 alarming things I learned about urban rivers
A local river may look like a place for water, ducks and the occasional shopping trolley, but then river expert Lawrence Beale Collins explained what…
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🪶 9 reasons herons are much stranger than they look
I thought I knew what a heron was: a tall bird with a long beak that stands in water and always looks judgemental.
 • Elia Kabanov
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