Tuesday's assorted links

Supermarket flowers, Medieval Times, carbon footprints, cookouts, and The G Word with Adam Conover

Hi y’all. Here are 5 stories from the past week that I enjoyed. I hope you like them too:

1. The surprising reason supermarkets sell flowers

2. Medieval Times workers will vote on forming the company’s first union

3. The carbon footprint of digital technologies is vast and may even be larger than aviation

4. The cost of a July 4th cookout was 17% higher compared to a year ago

5. I’ve written a new paper that shows how Netflix’s The G Word with Adam Conover contains a lot of good examples for teaching economics

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Yesterday I wrote about the recent announcements regarding pilot pay and pilot protests:

The Demand for Pilots Has Reached New Heights

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Week 26 is over and I’m up to 25 books for the year. I finished up a recent release I picked up at Barnes & Noble a couple of weeks back on the history of the tomato–Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World. It was a really fascinating look at 10 different varieties of tomatoes and their implications for things like canning and exports, pizza and spaghetti, and even ta little history of the Heinz corporation.