Happy holiday weekend,
This weekend, I’d like to extend a warm thank you for reading, and your support this year, and wish you a Merry Christmas.
Here is the best from around the Internet to peruse between naps and desserts:
Why are Americans spending less on the holidays? Tyler Cowen proposes a theory. How much of this, I wonder, has to do with fewer hobbies and fewer children?
Exploring heavy metal’s appreciation for ancient history, specifically, Roman emperors. Heavy metal bands have written hundreds of songs, including entire concept albums, about Roman emperors, the folly of hubris, and the virtues of anticonformity. Metal, indeed.
Speaking of rockstars, here is their nineteenth-century equivalent: Charles Dickens goes on a reading tour of America, reading selections from ‘A Christmas Carol’ and his enviable catalog of page-turners.
“Perpetual Broths“, which are simmered for years or even decades, hail from two regions of the world – China and France. Rumors are, one pot in France had been simmering since the 1400s until WWII interrupted it!
Derek Thompson argues our obsession with data, and the subsequent quest to produce perfect results, has only given us the familiar, the dull, and the predictable.
Currently reading: Kidnapped! by Robert Louis Stevenson
Have a leisurely weekend and a Merry Christmas.
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