That's Interesting
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Biologist Rates The Pain Of 83 Different Insects Stings
09th January, 2019“King of Sting” Justin O. Schmidt is a biologist at the Southwestern Biological Institute. A “connoisseur of pain,” he has ranked 83 different insect stings on a pain index based on his own experience.
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What we’re reading: The Idea Factory
05th December, 2018Interesting read about one of the most prolific innovation hubs of the past century and background behind the invention and development of the point-contact transistor which forms the building blocks for pretty much every electronics device we use today and the formation of silicon valley. The inventors, who worked at Bell Labs, won the 1956 Nobel Prize for physics.
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BoJ: What Drives China’s Growth? Evidence from Micro-level Data
05th December, 2018The linked Bank of Japan research paper discusses the sustainability of China’s rapid growth mainly based on the estimation of the corporate-level total factor productivity of Chinese listed firms.
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NPR: How the beatles made the white album
05th December, 2018Fifty years ago, just before the holidays in 1968, The Beatles put out not just a new album, but a double album, something relatively unheard of at the time. The album art was a stark, white, glossy cover with raised, slanted lettering that simply said, “The Beatles.” That self-titled album, with its 30 songs that span genres from American country music to avant-garde tape collage, has come to be known as “The White Album.”
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The Impossibly Cool Album Covers of Blue Note Records: Meet the Creative Team Behind These Iconic Designs
05th December, 2018The album covers of Blue Note Records included designs for John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Lou Donaldson.
The link includes an embedded youtube video from Vox Earworm on ‘The Greatest Album Covers of Jazz’.
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The Great Telegraph Breakthrough of 1866
08th November, 2018“The transatlantic telegraph cable amounted to the information revolution of the day, tying global markets together in unprecedented ways.”
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Planet Money – Episode 864: The Central (Bankers’) Question
07th November, 2018“It used to be central bankers had a powerful lever to guide the pace of the economy: The ability to raise or lower interest rates…But lately, the lever hasn’t been behaving like the textbooks say it should.”
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