Among the things I learned this week:
* Alexandria, VA, has the longest running farmers’ market in the country. (Courtesy: Southern Living)
* The personal- and tactical-level experience of Stalin’s Soviet Union. (Courtesy: Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers)
* Clothes dryer’s thermal fuse (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Fifty-six British gin distilleries opened during the past two years. (Courtesy: Economist)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Amtrak’s Acela is late 1/3 of the time, while the Northeast Regional is late 1/4 of the time. (Courtesy: Amtrak)
* K’ang (Courtesy: Dream of the Red Chamber)
* Masnada and mafia precursors. (Courtesy: Agatha Christie’s Poirot)
* Michael Jordan initially wanted an endorsement deal with Adidas. (Courtesy: Harper’s)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Jisei. (Courtesy: Harper’s)
* Jeffrey Sachs advised Yanis Varoufakis during the Greece crisis. (Courtesy: NYer)