“Employers don’t care if you hate them, and they don’t care if you think they’re being mean. But if you can find a way to make fun of them, and do it incisively — well, that really bothers them.”
Tag: 03.03.15
Fancy Feast For The Ears: Music Written Especially For Cats
“New research shows that cats do enjoy music; just not the stuff humans tend to pick. A team of psychologists at the University of Wisconsin created custom music designed to appeal to cats by mixing beats that fall into the same frequency range that cats use to communicate with one another. The songs also have a tempo similar to the beat that cats purr to.” (includes sound clips)
Big Final Push To Finish Abu Dhabi’s Louvre Museum In 2015
The 5,000-strong workforce is expected to swell to 7,500 over the coming months. “We shall deliver the building at the end of 2015,” its architect Jean Nouvel tells The Art Newspaper. “Then a few months will be needed to set up the inner structures and hang the works,” he says. The museum’s official opening date, which has not yet been set, will be in 2016.
Report: Women And Minority Writers Losing Ground In Hollywood
“In a new report, the guild said women writers’ share of TV staff jobs was 29% in the most recent season, down from 30.5% in the previous season. Meanwhile, minorities accounted for 13.7% of employment, compared with 15.6% during the 2011-12 season.”
ISIS Smashed Priceless Artifacts? They Might Not Have Been Real
“If you watch the video – which is, of course, what the Islamic State wants you to do – you’ll notice that several of the pieces disintegrate into a cloud of white powder as they hit the ground. That is plaster not stone, the experts say: Those statues are modern replicas. At one point, you can also see metal rods sticking up through the broken legs of a standing figure, another clue that piece is modern.”
The Double-Edged Sword Of Nostalgia
“I try to support what few record and book stores survive, and I still mourn the closing of Driggs Pizza in Williamsburg, where on our first date, my wife and I shared a few of the most exquisite pesto-enhanced grandma slices Brooklyn ever conceived. But I also like living in a city that moves to the beat of what Joseph Schumpeter referred to as “creative destruction,” one that innovates, evolves and experiences cultural ebbs and flows.”
Big Plans For Transforming Milwaukee’s Waterfront
The project is described as “catalytic” for downtown and is intended to create public plazas, improve pedestrian access from downtown to the lakefront, calm traffic, create a sense of arrival to the city and enhance Milwaukee’s sense of civic identity.
There Will Be No Oprah “‘Night, Mother” On Broadway (“Too Depressing”)
“Last February, The New York Times reported that talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was in talks to make her long-awaited Broadway debut in a revival of Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘night, Mother opposite five-time Tony-Award winner Audra McDonald. Winfrey was reportedly interested in portraying the role of a mother who desperately tries to prevent her daughter from killing herself.”
“Saturday Night Live” Is Going To China
“After 40 years as a weekend staple on U.S. television screens, Saturday Night Live will start a Chinese version in partnership with Sohu.com Inc., operator of an online search engine and video streaming sites.”
Understanding the Two Types of Extroversion (Yes, There Seem To Be Two)
“Agentic extraversion is about sensitivity to reward, engagement with goals and achievement, persistence, and taking a leadership position when you have an opportunity to do that. In other words, being comfortable in the limelight. … Affiliative extraversion is also a really great trait – it’s a dimension of social warmth. People who are high on the trait, close social relationships mean a lot to them, … they tend to have a very large group of meaningful friendships.”