Hello there, you witty wonder!

It's Friday! You made it! We can't give you a medal, but we can treat you to some nerdy nuggets from across the web 🤓

From our podcast with the man who coined The Ikea Effect, to some AI news, and a handful of hilarious cases of lateral thinking, we've got the goods to entertain your brain this fine weekend.

But first, just in case you need a smile from an unexpected place, please enjoy these pics of Snoop Dog having more fun than anybody else at the Paris Olympics. 

Big love,

Chris & the 42courses team

• Rituals, habits and the Ikea Effect: Michael Norton, a Professor of Behavioural Science at Harvard Business School joined our podcast for a conversation about the role of rituals in our lives.
   
• "Story makes you what you are": Just in case you weren't already convinced of the power of stories, here are 50 quotes about storytelling.
   
• They don't make ads like they used to: A nostalgic romp down the advertising hall of fame is always fun, and this collection of old funny FedEx ads is no different. Enjoy!
   
• The Llama that could beat OpenAI: Meta released an open source Large Language Model that some say performs better than Chat GPT4-0 but what are the risks?
   
• The strip club with "serious artistic merit": This is just one case from our list of 5 More Brilliant Examples of Lateral Thinking. 

• 1776 - The formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people. 🇺🇸
   
• 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte was declared "Consul for Life" after winning a national referendum. 🏛️
   
• 1865 - Lewis Carroll published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." 🐇
   
• 1870 - The Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opened in London. 🚇
   
• 1880 - The British Parliament officially adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). 🕰️
   
• 1932 - Carl David Anderson discovered and photographed a positron, the first known antiparticle. 🔬
   
• 2012 - American swimmer Michael Phelps won an unprecedented third consecutive gold medal in the 200m individual medley in 1:54.27 at the London Olympics. 🥇
   
• 2017 - The new cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cash was created via a hard fork of Bitcoin's blockchain technology and brand. 💰
   
• 2018 - TikTok, the video-sharing social network, became available worldwide after merging with Musical.ly. 📱