Miscellany on this sunny day … Discovered today and am reading a new book found at the Library, the Smithsonian’s “The VietNam War: The Definitive Illustrated History“, chock full of photographs, maps, graphics, and textual accounts.
From The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-compiled-list-of-collective-nouns
In this Road and Track piece, we see how the great-grandson of Ernest Shackleton becomes the first person to drive across the South Pole.
Even if the study of economics wasn’t basic to your college education like it was for some of us, you surely must have an appreciation for how economics is fundamental to an understanding of modern society. Here, the Evonomics website presents a piece on the Islamic scholar whose ideas were literally centuries ahead of Western economists.
The Amazing Arab Scholar Who Beat Adam Smith by Half a Millennium