Alcohol and the rise of the 2nd global economy

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-26/blackout-wednesday-and-americas-boozy-past

"Between 1790 and the mid-1820s, alcohol consumption reached dizzying heights. In the 1820s, Americans 15 and older consumed the equivalent of 7 gallons of pure alcohol a year. This number, compiled by the historian William Rorabaugh, is even worse than it sounds, given that the vast majority of the booze was consumed by a single subgroup of the drinking-age population: white men. As Rorabaugh has dryly noted, "this rate of use is among the highest ever recorded in any society and is close to the human body's physiological maximum capacity for intake of alcohol."

And universities like SFSU?

https://hbr.org/2014/11/from-the-knowledge-economy-to-the-human-economy?utm_campaign=Socialflow&utm_source=Socialflow&utm_medium=Tweet

History can stir people sometimes

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/world/americas/a-hammer-comes-down-on-an-honor-for-britain.html

(Bonus points for noticing how the reason for the British defeat, somewhat downplayed here, hits one of our themes about the tropical regions of the Americas!)

Finally, something truly useful for you all

www.economist.com/news/business/21627649-how-thrive-work-minimum-effort-guide-skiving?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/a_guide_to_skiving

Find this the same week as we talked about the turmoil of regular people entering history...

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/asia/the-dead-of-delhi-unknown-and-unclaimed.html