Hello there radiant reader!
And a happy Easter weekend to those who celebrate it 🐰
With four days of chocolate temptations, you might want some distraction, so feast your eyes on these brainy bonbons.
Go behind the scenes at Cannes to find out why funny ads aren't in fashion, hop over to Touffou with David Ogilvy, and get some career advice from Rory Sutherland, but first, we must pay tribute to Daniel Kahneman.
Big love,
Chris & the 42courses team x
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- 42 Quotes from Daniel Kahneman: The father of modern behavioural science graced this world with his wonderful mind for 90 years and, sadly, passed away this week. To honour the vast variety of his thoughts, we have collected 42 of his best quotes.
- Why funny ads fell out of fashion: And why you should bring them back! This fascinating read dives into exactly how ads win at Cannes and what changes made them less popular among creatives.
- What noodles tell us about the global economy: If you lined up all the noodles sold in a year end to end, it would stretch from Earth to Pluto and beyond! Move over Big Mac Index, Udon-omics is in!
- David Ogilvy talks advertising from Touffou: In this delightful video, David Ogilvy chats about big ideas, agency life, and the business of advertising in general from a beautiful chateau in France.
- Career Advice from Rory Sutherland: The Vice Chairman of Ogilvy in the Uk shares his wisdom about why you should be good at two things.
- Best things on the internet you never knew existed: From useful things like a white noise generator, to the absurd, like Australia's satyrical news site, this list is a gem and will definitely make you smile.
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9 Things That Happened On This Day - 29 March
- 845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving ⚔️
- 1795 Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist in Vienna 🎹
- 1849 - The first Henley Royal Regatta takes place on the Thames river. 🚣♂️
- 1873 - A. H. Chester is granted a patent for celluloid, a significant advancement in the development of plastics. 🛠️
- 1886 - The first batch of Coca-Cola is brewed by Dr. John Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. 🥤
- 1955 - The inaugural edition of the Guinness Book of World Records is published in London. 📚
- 1974 - NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft conducts the first successful flyby of Mercury. 🪐
- 2006 - The Karlsruhe Zoo in Germany announces the birth of the first polar bear cub in captivity in over three decades. 🐾
- 2014 - The world's first museum dedicated to garden gnomes opens in Devon, England. 🍄
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