This Week I Learned #5 – 28 July 2013

Articles:

1. The Archbishop of Canterbury wants to create credit unions that will out-compete payday lenders — but the really interesting part is what happened when Italian monks tried doing the same 500 years ago.
2. “British cathedrals today face mounting challenges recruiting lay-clerks, the men of the choir…”
3. Baby Prince George, Mum and Dad, and Buckingham Palace… all made out of Lego.
4. The rise of paid content on the Internet.
5. Could Google Glass be useful to surgeons? And will it be practical?
6. “The sizzling summer of 1976 caused permanent changes to British forests, new research suggests.”
7. [Finance & Economics]  “Detroit… is an extreme example of a developed world problem – a smaller workforce trying to service debts and pay benefits promised at a time when the economy was more prosperous.” That column is well worth reading – and pondering.

Video:

1. All you wanted to know about eating, shearing, and… uh, breeding alpacas.