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)
1—–>3—–>5
Terrible—>Fantastic
5
Tribe Called Quest, A – We got it from here…Thank You 4 Your Service
4
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
MIA – MAYA
MIA – Matangi
Robinson, Frederic – Flea Waltz
Lamar, Kendrick – untitled unmastered
Lamar, Kendrick – To Pimp a Butterfly
3
Weeknd, The – Starboy
Sey, Seinabo – Pretend
Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors
2
Banks & Steelz – Anything but Words
1