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)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Electric vehicle range can be reduced by 57 percent depending on the temperature: “The average EV battery range in AAA’s test was 105 miles at 75°F, but dropped 57 percent to 43 miles when the temperature was held steady at 20°F. Warm temperatures were less stressful on battery range, but still delivered a lower average of 69 miles per full charge at 95°F.” (Courtesy: AAA)
* Of 3858 Chinese P2P lender CEOs, 266 have fled China. (Courtesy: The Economist)
* Insurance technology funding patterns. (Courtesy: CB Insights)
Among the things I learned this week:
* There are 500 demonstrations per day in China. (Courtesy: New York Review of Books)
* The Chinese pioneered goldfish. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)
* There’s no obvious way to get around the new USPS requirement to enter a destination address into a computer system to mail a package. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* At least some USPS employees deny the existence of the Mail Isolation and Tracking system. (Courtesy: Personal experience)