Word of the Day
Bemuse (v., bih-MYOOZE)
To confuse someone. Or maybe it's more like bewildering. Perhaps it means to perplex them. No, that doesn't seem right. Perplex is too complicated. Bemuse is lighter, more like being taken aback. Maybe?
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From a cool 3D-printed zeotrope.
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The French widow who created the champagne industry
A cool story from Smithsonian, the history of how the champagne industry was started by a French widow:
From risking her inheritance on a failing business to gambling her champagne against a naval blockade, Barbe-Nicole built her champagne empire on bold decisions, a business model she never regretted. As she wrote in the later years of her life in a letter to a grandchild: “The world is in perpetual motion, and we must invent the things of tomorrow. One must go before others, be determined and exacting, and let your intelligence direct your life. Act with audacity.”
Read the whole thing.
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