Interesting Items - 8/21

Are Polymaths Still Relevant?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40865986

North-South Divide in Germany - Significant regional economic disparities pose a challenge for Germany

https://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffeeklatsch/2017/08/explaining-munich-miracle

https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21726705-its-election-campaign-kicks-germanys-north-south-split-ever-starker-germanys-new-divide

Solar Eclipse

https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21726681-months-eclipse-cultural-much-scientific-event-once-portents-terror