Among the things I learned this week:
* My Mom does not know my Dad’s email address. (Courtesy: Mom)
* Justice Thomas’ pro-anonymous free-speech position. (Courtesy: NYer)
* Twin Cities Review of Political Philosophy, a student-run political philosophy journal, made its debut. (Courtesy: SD)
* The Welcome to Detroit project has re-started, and it could be very good. (Courtesy: Ursprung Collective)
Among the things I learned this week:
* A significant number of music videos from Russian artists have Soviet- or tsarist-era imagery and symbolism. (Courtesy: Music Box)
* I live as well (better, really) as Kim Jong Il, based on the brands of “luxury” goods he has imported. (Courtesy: North Korean Economy Watch)
* Jazz, or at least open jazz clubs, do not exist in Athens during the summer. (Courtesy: Athens)
* Pigeon houses (for more, see this description and this photo) are a serious deal in Tinos and directly connected to its arts/sculpture tradition. (Courtesy: Tinos)
* Bootlegging in the US is often dominated by immigrant populations. I suspect this is because of the high capital costs of creating a legal distillery and emigres’ limited access to capital and credit. (Courtesy: NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Sofia is old–it dates to before 7th century BC–and there is evidence of its history strewn all about the city. (Courtesy: EZ and Sofia)
* Bulgarians know the last-clap game. (Courtesy: Crowd at a National Opera and Ballet performance)
* The interpretive variety and latitude of ballet performances is vast, the details of which I learn more and more about as I continue to explore. (Courtesy: Joan Acocella’s Dance Notes about Swan Lake in The New Yorker)
* Computer-guided matchmaking dates to at least the 1960s. (Courtesy: Nick Paumgarten’s The New Yorker article Looking for Someone).