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)
Among the things I learned this week:
* Belgium has the highest concentration of street lights in Europe and keeps most of them on at night. (Courtesy: Milan Schreuer/NYT)
* British Parliamentarian acts were, until only recently, recorded on parchment made out of calfskin. (Courtesy: Jenny Gross/WSJ)
* French Empire chandeliers are a devil to assemble. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Shelley Berman as someone other than Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David’s father. (Courtesy: Peter Keepnews/NYT)
* The Venice Charter, which outlines how restoration of monuments and sites should be handled. (Courtesy: Benjamin Ramm/NYT)
Among the things I learned this week:
* There are less than 10 full-time classical critics on the staffs of US newspapers. (Courtesy: Alex Ross/New Yorker)
* Orson Welles was a fan of Taxi. (Courtesy: Boing Boing)
* A conversation between William F. Buckley and Grouch Marx is not nearly as interesting as expected. (Courtesy: Personal Experience)