With Scientology in the news again, now seems a good time to revisit this 1983 Penthouse interview with the estranged son of L Ron Hubbard, the late Ronald Edward DeWolf.

In 1950 L Ron Hubbard opened a Dianetics clinic, where the hopeful and newly converted could come, for a fee, and their ills – from loneliness to cancer – would be cured. Dianetics was the new Scientific Revolution and Hubbard was its prophet… Soon the New Jersey authorities and the American Medical Association challenged the veracity of the new faith. L Ron Hubbard met the challenge by fleeing the state (not the last time this was to happen). A frequent memory of Ron Jr. is his father’s packing up shoeboxes with thousands of dollars to move on to greener and safer pastures.

“We attracted quite a few hippies but we tried to stay away from them, because they didn’t have any money.”

More. And. Related: The L Ron Hubbard audio collection.

(h/t, Discarded Lies.)

Business Week is impressed by Lego bricks.

The bricks are so versatile that just six of them can be arranged in 915,103,765 ways. No wonder Lego has been named “Toy of the Century” – twice… The company claims that out of every 1 million elements made, just 18 will be declared defective and removed from the set. Impressive numbers, considering that the Lego Group is producing 15 billion components a year – that’s 1.7 million items an hour, or 28,500 a minute. Tyre production accounts for some of that number; the factory also produces 306 million tiny rubber tyres a year. In fact, going by that number, Lego is the world’s No. 1 tyre manufacturer.

Related: Art of the Brick, how Lego bricks are made, the politics of Lego, and the Lego harpsichord, which sounds much like you’d imagine.

(h/t, Coudal.)