Hello there, brainiac!

And welcome to Friday! Let's leave the mental gymnastics to the Olympic champions, and settle in with a cup of tea and some simply enjoyable neural nibbles ☕️

For example, did you know that arts used to be considered Olympic sports? Between 1912 and 1948, painters, sculptors, architects, writers, and musicians all used to be able to compete for medals! 

As for the rest of your weekend reads, please enjoy Elon Musk's AI version of a world leaders' fashion show, a seriously thorough list of top 10 business books, a regency era safety video and more!

Big love,

Chris & the 42courses team

• High time for an AI fashion show: Cheeky as ever, this AI generated runway was made and posted by Elon Musk. Please enjoy the many looks of Barack Obama.
   
• Top 10 business books of all time: This is meta analysis of all the books recommended by 100 CEOs, condensed into one list. (Check out which behavioural scientist tops the list with the best business book of all time!)
   
• Get outside when your PC crashes: In case you didn't know, there was recently a global outage of PCs, and Decathlon displayed some wonderful tactical advertising in the gap.
   
• A Regency era safety video: British Airways has created a new safety video that is almost too British. If fact, if you love period dramas like Bridgerton, you'll love this.
   
• What really happened with AI at Cannes Lions: In case you missed it, here is our founder's talk on the highlights from Cannes Lions, and the number one topic on everyone's lips.

• 1524 - James V was declared fit to govern by the Scottish Parliament at the age of 12. 🏰
   
• 1609 - English mathematician Thomas Harriot was the first person to draw a map of the Moon by looking through a telescope. 🌕
   
• 1656 - Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declared himself insolvent after spending too much on artwork and rare items. This led to the most experimental and creative period of his career. 🎨
   
• 1847 - Moses Gerrish Farmer built the first miniature train for children to ride. 🚂
   
• 1945 - Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva departed from Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (used in the bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian, where the bomb was assembled. 💣
   
• 1971 - Apollo 15 was launched (Scott and Irwin) for the fourth manned landing on the Moon. 🚀
   
• 1983 - Flashes of light were seen on Jupiter's moon Io. 🌌
   
• 2017 - US President Donald Trump announced a policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama-era changes. 🏳️‍⚧️
   
• 2018 - The observation of a black hole by The Very Large Telescope in Chile proved Albert Einstein's prediction of "gravitational redshift," published in the "Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics." 🔭