Among the things I learned this week:
* The fourth-wife syndrome. (Courtesy: Rod Nordland/NYT)
* Aretha Franklin’s Dad’s (Clarence LaVaughn) prominence. (Courtesy: David Remnick/NYer)
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Things I Learned this Week
Among the things I learned this week:
* Austin, TX (Courtesy: Personal Experience)
* The lost techniques and era of Chinese fashion. (Courtesy: New Yorker)
* Ten states have fewer jobs now than when the start of the Great Recession. The states are: Wyoming, Alabama, New Mexico, New Jersey, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, Maine, Connecticut, and West Virginia. (Courtesy: NYT)
Things I Learned this Week
Among the things I learned this week:
* Mansudae Art Studio is North Korea’s art department, and its artwork is available for sale via an Italy-based company. (Courtesy: NYT)
* Evacuation Day (Courtesy: NYT)
* CubeSat movement technologies. (Courtesy: Economist)
* Northwestern-style xiao long baos have a thicker skin, because of the region’s more common use of flour. (Courtesy: NYT)
* Tobacco was legal tender in Virginia. (Courtesy: David Graeber’s Debt)