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Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* The history of the sports bra. (Courtesy: 99% Invisible)

* Spotify uses NLP with data from monitoring the Web to help with song recommendations. (Courtesy: Sophia Ciocca/HackerNoon)

* Students who don’t bring their phone to class, earn a letter-grade better than those who do. (Courtesy: Nicholas Carr/WSJ)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* Brewery counts during the years. (Courtesy: Bloomberg Brief Reserve)

Number of breweries per year.

Number of breweries per year.

* Potatoes will allow us to colonize Mars. (Courtesy: Ryan Dube/WSJ)

* Prive Porter, its focus, its sales channels, and its thoughts on Chanel. (Courtesy: Christina Binkley/WSJ)

A reseller specializing in Hermès handbags, Privé Porter is on track to sell $24 million of the purses this year, Mr. Berk says. About 90% of his inventory is sold via Instagram, and 60% goes to Asian and Middle Eastern customers.

There is a reason he deals almost exclusively in Hermès. It is the brand most likely to command investment-worthy obsessions. In his experience, “no one is kicking down the door for Chanel,” Mr. Berk says.

* Noma‘s head chef Rene Redzepi made a gin flavored with ants. (Courtesy: Alice Lascelles/FT)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* Austin, TX (Courtesy: Personal Experience)

* The lost techniques and era of Chinese fashion. (Courtesy: New Yorker)

* Ten states have fewer jobs now than when the start of the Great Recession. The states are: Wyoming, Alabama, New Mexico, New Jersey, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, Maine, Connecticut, and West Virginia. (Courtesy: NYT)