GLEANINGS

Using a machine-learning algorithm to screen more than 100 million chemical compounds, MIT discovered a drug called halicin that kills the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains resistant to all known antibiotics. For someone weighing 155 lbs., the gut microbiota is just under half a pound—the equivalent of a mediumsized mango.

After visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame in the 1950s, Jimmy Van Alen, president of the venerated Newport Casino, lobbied leadership of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association to sanction his Rhode Island casino, turning it into the National Tennis Hall of Fame.

$25,000 is how much you’ll pay for a nice-looking 1941 Martin D-18 from Elderly Instruments, one of the world’s most respected sellers of new, used, and vintage fretted instruments. The digestive system works with muscles (not gravity) so your body can process food even if you are standing on your head.

Issue Accoutrements

In making this issue of VESTED, the team found several printworthy facts too good to skip over. From what the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is doing with artificial intelligence and deep learning to how much your gut microbiota weighs—we’ve captured some of this issue’s most interesting facts for your quick consumption.

An important milestone in the history of tennis was the decision of the All England Croquet Club to set aside a lawn at Wimbledon for tennis. In a short time the club changed its name to the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club!

$6,000,010

The amount Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged Martin guitar sold for at Julien’s Auctions in Hollywood. It is currently the most expensive guitar ever sold.

There is a Designing Your Life virtual workshop for women. The month-long journey of interactive breakout sessions will reframe dysfunctional beliefs, explore social and personal narratives that shape women, and dig into design tools to increase creativity and confidence. designingyour.life/ women Kathy Davies of the Life Design Lab at Stanford holds five U.S. patents spanning inventions such as an integrated anastomosis tool (U.S. 8574246) and a surgical knot (U.S. 7883518).

Although all Martin guitars were built in Nazareth beginning in 1839, they continued to be stamped C.F. Martin, New York, until 1867 and then C.F. Martin & Co., New York until 1898 because of a sales arrangement with a New York distributor.