Things I learned lately 13 Jan

• Things George Santos lied about before being elected: high school resume; college resume; worked at Goldman Sachs / Citigroup; 9/11 claimed his mother’s life; mother fled socialism in Europe; grandparents survived holocaust; lost employees in Pulse nightclub shooting; had a non-profit pet charity; claimed to be Jewish. He refuses to resign (as of 12 Jan) even as some members of his party have disavowed him.
• There’s an electric vehicle being designed from the ground up in Canada under the name Project Arrow (fitting). Its prototype was just unveiled at CES. It has some big partners in the auto industry supply chain and major education partners. They’re not going for the cheapest price, they’re going for the highest quality. Here’s hoping. 
• Various airports get rid of their snow using a snow melter. It’s like a big hopper that melts whole front end loaders full of snow and dumps the water down the storm drain on the tarmac. Here’s a video of one in action. 
• When David Geffen signed Neil Young to a record deal in the early 1980s, he was expecting more albums along the lines of Rust Never Sleeps. What he got was Kraftwerk-like Trans, the rockabilly Everybody’s Rockin’ and the country Old Ways. Geffen was so pissed, he filed a lawsuit against Young for making “unrepresentative” music.
• Before he began work scoring movies, Hans Zimmer briefly worked with the band The Buggles. He can be seen briefly in the Buggles' music video for the 1979 song "Video Killed the Radio Star".