Toyota originated from the family name of the founder, "Toyoda", with early vehicles produced by the company originally sold with a "Toyoda" emblem.  In 1936, the company ran a public competition to design a new logo, which lead to a change in the brand name to what is now called "Toyota".   It has been regarded as a favorable transition from "Toyoda" to "Toyota", because voiceless consonants sound more appealing than voiced consonants.  In addition, through the concept of "jikaku" (counting the number of strokes in writing characters to determine good and bad luck), its eight-stroke count is associated with wealth and good fortune.  http://www.toyota-global.com/showroom/emblem/history/

Phaedrus may refer to:  people  Phaedrus (Athenian) (c. 444 BC–393 BC), an Athenian aristocrat depicted in Plato's dialogues; Phaedrus (fabulist) (c. 15 BC–c. AD 50), a Roman fabulist; Phaedrus the Epicurean (138 BC–c. 70 BC), an Epicurean philosopher.  Phaedrus may refer to:  Art and literature  Phaedrus (dialogue), a dialogue of Plato; Phaedrus (play), a 3rd-century BC comedic play by Alexis (poet); Phaedrus, character in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; A work by Cy Twombly  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus

Philosopher, mathematician, academic and scientist René Descartes (1596-1650) is regarded as the father of modern philosophy for defining a starting point for existence, “I think; therefore I am.”  ("Cogito ergo sum.")”  René Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine, a small town in central France, which has since been renamed after him to honor its most famous son.  Descartes was the youngest of three children, and his mother, Jeanne Brochard, died within his first year of life.  His father, Joachim, a council member in the provincial parliament, sent the children to live with their maternal grandmother, where they remained even after he remarried a few years later.  But he was very concerned with good education and sent René, at age 8, to boarding school at the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Flèche, several miles to the north, for seven years.  The subjects he studied, such as rhetoric and logic and the “mathematical arts,” which included music and astronomy, as well as metaphysics, natural philosophy and ethics, equipped him well for his future as a philosopher.  So did spending the next four years earning a baccalaureate in law at the University of Poitiers.  https://www.biography.com/people/ren-descartes-37613

Cartesian  adjective  Of, or pertaining to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.  adjective  Of, or pertaining to co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.  noun  One who follows the philosophy of Cartesianism.  GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English  https://www.wordnik.com/words/Cartesian

A hypernym is a type of thing, such as colour, car, road.  A hyponym is a variant of a type of thing, such as:  Colour (red, yellow, orange, green, blue)  Car ( Ford, Honda, Renault, Mercedes, Hyundai)  Road (by-road, highway, motorway, a-road, b-road, lane)   A word can be a hypernym in one context and a hyponym in another.  Blue is a hyponym of colour but is itself a hypernym of different shades of blue, such as cyan, navy, turquoise, and aqua-marine.  An eponym is a word named after a person.  A metonym is a word which describes someone by way of their features.  Calling someone a ‘hoodie’ is an example of a metonym.  A synonym is a word which has the same meaning as another, interchangeable word.  An antonym is a word which is the opposite of another. http://theenglishlanguageproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/hypernyms-hyponyms.html

Aramark and their Super Bowl LII partners in Minnesota will have foods from Andrew Zimmern’s Canteen, including his rotisserie and canteen hoagies, Be Graceful Bakery and Catering, Curds and Cakes, Ike’s Food and Cocktails, Kramarczuk’s Sausage Company , Lola’s Café, Prairie Dogs, R Taco, Revival Restaurant, Twin Cities Foodie, A Peace of Cake, Chocolat Celeste, Just Truffles, Thomasani’s Cashew Brittle and T-Rex Cookie Company.  The servings on Super Bowl Sunday will include tributes to the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, with a New England clam roll and South Philly roast pork sandwich and two drinks--The Wicked Red (cranberry juice, rum and blueberry) for the Patriots and Midnight Green Punch (vodka, sour apple and lemon-lime soda) for the Eagles.  https://scout.com/nfl/vikings/Article/Saturdays-Super-Bowl-activities-114271451

January 17, 2018  The 27th annual Party with a Purpose by Taste of the NFL, a nonprofit raising resources for food banks across America, comes to the Twin Cities this year.  The annual event held in that year’s Super Bowl city teams celebrity chefs from the 32 NFL cities with NFL players to provide tastings for 2,500 guests.  Local restaurateur Wayne Kostroski founded Taste of the NFL.  Taste of the NFL’s Party with a Purpose, brought to you by General Mills, will be Saturday, Feb. 3, at St. Paul’s RiverCentre.  Tickets for the star-studded event start at $700 and include food and drink and live entertainment from O.A.R. (tasteofthenfl.com).  Nancy Ngo  Chefs behind Taste of the NFL, from Twin Cities chef / restaurateur Thomas Boemer to New York’s David Burke, share their favorite Super Bowl party recipes at https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/17/taste-of-the-nfl-chefs-share-favorite-super-bowl-party-recipes/

SCOTTSVILLE, N.Y. — Wendell Castle, a visionary woodworker, furniture-maker and sculptor, has died at the age of 85.  Castle died January 20, 2018 at his estate near the Genesee River in Scottsville, according to an announcement by Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was an Artist in Residence.  In more than a half-century of work, Castle melded furniture with art, creating provocative tables, chairs, clocks and other objects that bemused, surprised and baffled those who saw them.  He placed form above function, and frequently shifted styles and genres.  Of late, he had been sculpting furniture with a robot.  Castle's work—best-known in wood but also plastic, concrete, bronze—is exhibited in galleries and displayed in museums worldwide.  His Scottsville workshop, which employs 10 people, produces fine art pieces.  A separate workshop turns out furniture that is sold through a handful of select dealers in the United States and Canada.  Castle has been honored by the Smithsonian Institution, the American Craft Council, the American Craft Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and countless other institutions.  Castle's son, Bryon Castle, an artist, is in charge of the finishes on the furniture created in the Scottsville workshop.  His daughter, Alison Castle, an author, editor and film-maker who lives in Brooklyn, was a frequent visitor with her two children.  
She is just finishing a documentary film about her father.  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/21/visionary-furniture-artist-wendell-castle-dies-85/1052470001/
NOTE that The Toledo Museum of Art owns a Steinway concert grand piano with an art case designed by Wendell Castle. 

January 7, 2018  This past week, John Pace of Germantown, Tenn. found the largest prime number known to humankind.  And that number goes on to more than 23 million digits.  Prime numbers can only be divided by 1 and themselves.  Pace found his prime as part of an online collective called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS. Pace and thousands of volunteers ran software on their personal computers crunching numbers day-in and day-out.  Anyone can participate, you just need a computer, an internet connection and a lot of patience.  Pace began his prime hunt 14 years ago.  Pace's prime holds the title for the largest, but there are other bigger ones out there.  And they're important, especially when it comes to cryptography, internet security and the future of computing.  Lulu Garcia-Navarro  https://www.npr.org/2018/01/07/576301169/new-prime-number-discovered

See rare supermoon, blue moon and lunar eclipse  Posted January 31, 2018 at 07:47 AM | Updated January 31, 2018 at 08:13 AM  See photos in New York City and around the world at http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2018/01/super_blue_blood_moon_2018_photos_supermoon_lunar_eclipse.htmlom/us-ws/index.ssf/2018/01/super_blue_blood_moon_2018_photos_supern_nar_eclipse.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1835  January 31, 2018  On this date in 1801, John Marshall was appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.  On this date in 1865, the United States Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submitted it to the states for ratification.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_31