Welcome to the weekend,
Here are five things I found worth sharing this week:
On the hunt for America’s forgotten apples: “By 1900, about 20,000 known varieties of apples grew across North America. Now there’s less than half that number.”
Ted Gioia has the surprising backstory of the Mission Impossible theme song.
“Writing at a time of escalating tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, Wilson pointedly argued that Kafka should be read as an heir to both Edgar Allan Poe and Nikolai Gogol, the great antirealists of nineteenth-century American and Russian literature.”, on the origins of the term “Kafkaesque” in Cold War America.
A look at the logistics explaining the NFL’s difficulty in chartering planes.
Currently reading: Age of the Infovore by Tyler Cowen
Have a creative weekend.
Photo by Natalia Y. on Unsplash
