Among the things I learned this week:
* Structure and historical importance of whaling businesses. (Courtesy: The Economist)
* Espresso making techniques and factors. (Courtesy: Toby’s Estate Coffee’s Espresso Foundations Class)
* Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect‘s theme song was produced by Rza. (Courtesy: With All Due Respect’s interview with Rza)
* The history of the KKK’s hood and white uniform. (Courtesy: New Republic)
* Opera flasks or Flacon d’eau de Melisse. (Courtesy: eBay)
Among the things I learned this week:
* IPFS, a decentralized change-capturing method for storing and serving Web sites. (Courtesy: Hacker News)
* KJU‘s haircut is referred to as a disconnect. (Courtesy: NYT)
* The use of Buddhist hand gestures in Christian art. (Courtesy: Sotheby’s)
* Bloomberg Terminals run on 25mm lines of Fortran. (Courtesy: Coding the Markets)
* Roy Jones, Jr. is a Russian citizen. (Courtesy: NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Sharp invented the mechanical pencil. Sharp’s Wikipedia page identifies a few other cool inventions from the company, including the first camera phone. (Courtesy: Bloomberg)
* Careering means: “Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction”. (Courtesy: RC)