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☀️ 15 things I learned this summer

I spent the summer reading papers, following herons, looking at London data and falling into historical rabbit holes.

21 hrs ago • Elia Kabanov

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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.

Aug 26 • Elia Kabanov

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📈 My first experiments with data visualisation

For years, I was fascinated by data visualisation. This summer, I started making it myself.

Aug 21 • Elia Kabanov

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💉 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.

Aug 17 • Elia Kabanov

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💬 10 facts I learned last week

In this week’s discoveries: why people may be talking less and what monkeys know about geometry.

Aug 10 • Elia Kabanov

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July 2026

🦴 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.

Jul 24 • Elia Kabanov

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🌡️ 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.

Jul 7 • Elia Kabanov

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June 2026

🧛‍♂️ 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…

Jun 15 • Elia Kabanov

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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…

Jun 9 • Elia Kabanov

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May 2026

🪶 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.

May 20 • Elia Kabanov

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🩹 7 facts I learned this week

Today’s list explains why peeling tape is basically a tiny sonic boom and how Ryan Gosling’s fox cardigan became the latest knitwear obsession.

May 7 • Elia Kabanov

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April 2026

🌐 A proposal that changed everything

When Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer, submitted his proposal to CERN management for what would become the World Wide Web, he opened…

Apr 24 • Elia Kabanov

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