Collected bits and pieces I’ve noticed this month.

The Mpemba effect, or why hot water freezes faster than cold water.
via Serious Eats

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The IMAX theatres where lucky people get to see Oppenheimer and other films projected off 70mm prints, run an emulator of the Palm m130 aka the Palm Pilotas part of the projection system. Why? Because it works.

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This has, by now, circulated wide and far in design-related interwebs. Nonetheless, nice observations and thoughts on the intangible in interaction design from Rauno Freiberg.

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From Robin Dunbar of Dunbar's number fame, comes a chart showing the number of people one can have a meaningful relationship with at various levels of intimacy. This is obviously not an introvert's chart, ha-ha, ha…

“The layers come about primarily because the time we have for social interaction is not infinite. You have to decide how to invest that time, bearing in mind that the strength of relationships is directly correlated with how much time and effort we give them.”

via Kottke

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Some novel music apps from developer Marcos Tanaka – MusicHarbor for finding out about new releases by artists in your Apple Music library and MusicBox, which is best described as “read-it-later, but for music”.