Among the things I learned this week:
* Gum is forbidden at (some?) drum ‘n’ bass events. (Courtesy: Hospital Podcast 344)
* Open and shared office plans make you sick. And if you have to share, better do so with two to five other people. (Courtesy: Pejtersen JH1, Feveile H, Christensen KB, Burr H.)
* Crowdsourced verification platforms, such as Check. (Courtesy: Bellingcat)
* The history of tuning to A440. (Courtesy: Matthew Guerrieri/Red Bull Music Academy)
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:
* 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)