Five Things #222
This week’s Five Things…
This is all very strange. A mysterious metal monolith was spotted in a desert in Utah. It then disappeared. And now another one has appeared in Romania?
A fascinating episode of the EconTalk podcast with Virginia Postrel on the history of textiles. This really blew my mind: "... take a pair of jeans, which, in the scheme of things is not that much fabric. Pair of jeans, to weave that amount of fabric, takes about six miles of thread ... nowadays, you can spin in a modern spinning plant that amount of thread in a few seconds. But in the pre-Industrial Revolution period, the very fastest, best spinners in the world were in India; and they could spend 100 meters of thread an hour. And, that means that it would take about 13 days, 13 eight-hour days, to spin the amount of thread in a pair of jeans"
What a music video!
I've been listening to a lot of Julia Holter this week. Her album Have You In My Wilderness is great.
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