Making a misguided foray into the weather, I join friend Kevin for a visit to a couple of his cars (of a total of five, I think, not counting motorcycles) in winter storage: his newly-acquired and almost perfect 35-year-old BMW and his 27-year-old summer driver 951 Porsche Turbo. Nearly froze ourselves.
“Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned.”
Although this pre-Columbian archaeological site beneath St. Louis has been known for quite some years, only recently is its vast size becoming clear.
Read about it here, and, of course, Google for more.
The great American word mapper, based on Twitter data analysis, shows us the relative regional popularity or frequency of some 100,000 American English words.
A video straight from the people who should know …
Some of my email correspondents and I exchange thoughts and links just about daily on subjects probably only interesting to ourselves and perhaps best kept to ourselves. One such topic is economics, and keeping in mind that that is one of the potential degree alternatives under consideration by Nik, here is an analysis that is a bit heady and long-winded but quite interesting and provocative, and now seems relevant to current concerns that we all have.
http://qz.com/840973/everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-free-trade-is-wrong/
Writing yesterday in a piece for Bloomberg View, Tyler Cowen discusses the practice of “seasteading”, a concept that he suggests might untether business from politics. But it reminds me of operations that we first started hearing about under other guises and discriptors in the 70s and 80s in terms of corporations that transcend national borders and even headquarter themselves in ocean locales outside territorial waters, beyond the bounds of national regulation with the potential of becoming independent political units on their own.
Live, from Seattle:
Directed to me by Kim …
Backyard, this morning …
Just out; here’s the article.
And here’s our previous take on one of the choices.