Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* Felled and properly laid trees can stop tanks. (Courtesy: War is Boring)

* Fake wine is a significant issue in the wine world. (Courtesy: Kate Krader/Bloomberg)

* Flying’s nine freedoms. (Courtesy: Paul McClean and Alex Barker/FT)

* Contrary to an earlier Things I Learned this Week post, Brazil does not ban coffee imports. (Courtesy: Joseph Leahy and Emiko Terazono/FT)

Album Reviews

1—–>3—–>5
Terrible—>Fantastic

5
Tribe Called Quest, A – We got it from here…Thank You 4 Your Service

4
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
MIA – MAYA
MIA – Matangi
Robinson, Frederic – Flea Waltz
Lamar, Kendrick – untitled unmastered
Lamar, Kendrick – To Pimp a Butterfly

3
Weeknd, The – Starboy
Sey, Seinabo – Pretend
Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors

2
Banks & Steelz – Anything but Words

1

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* The meddlesome wannabe psychologist on Miracle in 34th Street is the lawyer in The Thin Man, Porter Hall. (Courtesy: Personal Experience)

* Weck Sturz Glass Canning Jars, and specifically the 12.5 oz one, makes an excellent grind-collection container for KitchenAid Burr Coffee Grinders.

* USPS makes a regular habit of providing a delivered status for packages, marking them delivered just in time for the shipper’s promise to customers, and then delivering them one to two days later. (Courtesy: Personal Experience)