What I read today - Dec 20

• How Pleather Saved the DuPont Company—And Some Cows, Too, Atlas Obscura
• How the Battle for Sunlight Shaped New York City, City Lab
• Work in Progress: Brooklyn Lace Guild, Textile Arts center
• Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse, Textile Arts center
• Gingrich: Congress should change ethics laws for Trump, politico
  “Speaker Gingrich’s statement that wealth trumps the rule of law, basically that’s what he was saying, is jaw-dropping,” added American University government professor James Thurber. “I can’t believe it. He’s a historian. He should also know that we did not want to have a king. A king in this case is somebody with a lot of money who cannot abide by the rule of law."
• Here’s an ancient philosophy so simple even a 5-year-old could understand it, Boing Boing
• What drugs were the Nazis on, anyway?, CNN
• A Wonderful Life: How Postwar Christmas Embraced Spaceships, Nukes, Cellophane, Collectors Weekly
• When Do You Outgrow IKEA?, Pricenomics