Among the things I learned this week:
* The hottest new dining spot in Pyongyang is Italy Pizza! (Courtesy: Laya Maheshwari/NYT)
* Americans ate seven pounds of avocados in 2015, double what we ate in 2008. Michoacán is the only Mexican state that can export avocados to the US. (Courtesy: Victoria Burnett/NYT)
* Humphrey Bogart was a serious chess player. (Courtesy: Mike Doyle/Chess.com)
* Oysters first appeared at a restaurant in 1763. (Courtesy: Sam Roberts/NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* AVG Innovation Labs developed a clever way to leverage the same technology that does facial and image recognition, so that faces are automatically blurred. This could protect a degree of privacy while letting the others sell/advertise their experiences. (Courtesy: AVG Innovation Labs)
* More than 40,000 millionaires left France between 2000 and 2014. (Courtesy: Michael Stothard/FT)
* The Confucius family tree is the longest lasting and most documented lineage. (Courtesy: Amy Qin/NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* UC Davis has a coffee center and engineering class (Courtesy: ZS). Grades are dependent on the quality of the cup of coffee students produce and the amount of energy used (pdf) to make that cup. Scoring the quality of the cup is done using this scale: “The coffee will be judged in a blind taste test by a panel of your peers on a scale of -10 to 55 (where -10 is the worst cup of coffee in the history of mankind, and 55 is nirvana in a cup.)”
* I’m capable of missing an entire season of Ft. Reno. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Blue Bottle is selling pre-ground coffee, and in a very software way. (Courtesy: Personal experience)