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  "title": "Things I learned this week #2",
  "author": "Thomas Wilson",
  "date": "2020-08-21T00:00:00.000Z",
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  return `<ul><li><strong>This useful thinking tool</strong>: good writing starts with observations, and moves to analysis. Making the transition is difficult. One way to spot a mental crutch is to see where you reach for words like \u201Cinterestingly\u201D, \u201Csurprisingly\u201D, or \u201Cnotably\u201D. These all <em>hint</em> at a significance or meaningfulness, but don\u2019t actually clarify it. (<a href="${"https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-001-foundations-of-western-culture-homer-to-dante-fall-2008/writing-resources/obser_ver_anlsis.pdf"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">source</a>)</li>
<li><strong>This hot takeaway</strong>: Did you know that during the 1970s if you ordered a takeaway coffee it came in a styrofoam cup and a lid without a hole. If you wanted to drink your beverage, you had to take the lid off <em>and then put it back on</em> - can you imagine? Obviously impatient, the hardcore mobile coffee drinkers (think: taxi drivers) kept ripping holes in the lid to drink their Joe on the Go. Where there\u2019s demand, there\u2019s business and thus was born a <a href="${"https://designobserver.com/feature/coffee-lids-peel-pinch-pucker-puncture/39790/"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">whole field of design</a> for designing the most safe and ergonomic way to drink coffee from a cup without having to actually take the lid off.</li>
<li><strong>This Frank etymology</strong>: \u201CLingua Franca\u201D describes a common language between a group of people. It emerged in the late 1700s and translates functionally as \u201CLanguage of the Franks\u201D, with <em>Franks</em> being anyone broadly from Westen Europe. The original Lingua Franca was a mixture of simplified Italian, Greek, Old French, Portuguese, Occitan (a Romance language spoken around southern France and northern Italy and Spain - <a href="${"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">wiki</a>) , Spanish, Arabic, and Turkish (<a href="${"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca#Etymology"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">source</a>)</li>
<li><strong>These Kinswomen</strong>: King James II had a thing for witty, plain looking mistresses. Two such mistresses were <a href="${"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabella_Churchill_(royal_mistress)"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">Arabella Churchill</a> and <a href="${"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Sedley,_Countess_of_Dorchester"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">Catherine Sedley</a>. Arabella is described in <a href="${"https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GfQ_TquTZicC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">The Ladies Dictionary (1694)</a> as being \u201Cof no less Eminence for learning and ingenuous Parts than her Quality\u2026 she had a great facility in poetry and was a celebrated conversant among the Muses\u201D. Despite carrying four children for the man, she was later replaced by 16 year-old (yep) Catherine Sedley, who <a href="${"https://archive.org/details/sexwithkings500y00herm/page/52/mode/2up"}" rel="${"nofollow"}">remarked</a> of being chosen that \u201CIt cannot be my beauty, for he must see I have none\u2026 and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know I have any\u201D. James, buddy - you did not deserve these women.</li></ul>`;
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