Weekend Reading: August 14, 2015

British Museum Reading Room (Diliff)

BerkShares to Bowie pounds:The advent of artisanal currency. Remember the Columbia House mail-order record deal? (11 albums for a penny, get a 12th for free!) This is how they could afford to do that. Why is the reaction to the current heroin epidemic and the crack epidemic from decades ago so different? There’s a purge going on in North Korea that’s claimed over 70 officials. Trump’s secret gift to the GOP. Signers of the Designers’ Hippocratic Oath prom...