I was impressed by this recent article on American athlete’s success at Vancouver (from the Wall Street Journal of all places).  A few things impressed me …
1. How little money was spent to target a “medals race” and yet how much success the team is having … particularly in events not usually dominated by American [...]

I was listening to a podcast recently that mentioned the number of books in the Library of Congress in relation to what we can actually take in.  The numbers were a bit old and a bit off.  As best as I can tell there are now over 30 million cataloged books … but over 140 [...]