Among the things I learned this week:
* Parents are spending more time with their kids these days. (Courtesy: The Economist)
* NCAA football championships are less diverse program wise than its basketball counterpart. In the 16 playoff spots since NCAA football moved to a playoff system, nine programs participated. There have been 13 programs in basketball’s equivalent. (Courtesy: Marc Tracy/NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Billy the Kid played croquet. (Courtesy: Jacey Fortin/NYT)
* Grandmother clock is a type of clock and different than a Grandfather clock. (Courtesy: Quinn’s Auction House)
* Capons are extra delicious castrated poultry. (Courtesy: Ese Erheriene/WSJ)
Among the things I learned this week:
* The data collection and storage implementations that Mercedes uses for its F1 cars. (Courtesy: Nathan Matisse/Ars Technica).
* Chengdu is the center of Chinese hip hop. (Courtesy: Amy Qin/NYT)
* Colin Powell was against the tear-down-this-wall line in Reagan’s 1987 Berlin speech. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)