“Burnout now appears in the [WHO handbook] ICD-11’s section on problems related to employment or unemployment. According to the handbook, doctors can diagnose someone with burnout if they meet the following symptoms:
1. feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;
2. increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job;
3. reduced professional efficacy.” – CNN
Tag: 05.27.19
Police In India Have Been Arresting Young Men For Playing Country’s Most Popular Video Game
Video game culture in general in India is relatively new. So when PUBG (official name PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) skyrocketed in popularity in the months after its release, a nervous backlash developed among those given to moral panics, with warnings about the game’s violence and addictiveness. But the major cities in the state of Gujarat went farther, actually banning the game — and that ban wasn’t just for show. – BuzzFeed
The “Most Dangerous Art Ever” – A Laptop Loaded With Viruses – Sells For $1.3 Million
Dubbed “The Persistence of Chaos,” the Samsung NC10 contains six viruses that have caused an estimated $95 billion in damages. Despite what you might think, it’s not meant to be a tool for any world domination scheme. It’s intended strictly as an art piece — though it could be used for academic purposes — and it’s currently isolated and air-gapped to prevent foul play. – Engadget
How The New Orleans Jazz Market Survived A Scandal And Rose Again
“Most organizations probably would have went under and failed,” the drummer Adonis Rose, a charter member of the orchestra who took over as artistic director after the scandal broke, said in an interview last month. “Thankfully, we did not.” – The New York Times
Want To Know What Is Art? Start By Asking What Art Isn’t
“What’s the difference between something that’s not art because it’s not good enough, and something that’s not art because it’s the wrong sort of thing? Let’s start there.” – 3 Quarks Daily
Noah Webster Didn’t Just Create A Dictionary — He Wanted To Establish One American National Language
Emphasis on the one. “For Webster, new nationhood provided unique opportunities for language reform — opportunities that would fade quickly, he warns, if not grabbed before America’s language, like Britain’s, deteriorated owing to homegrown ‘corruptions’ such as regional dialects, affectation, nostalgia for English manners and customs, class divisions, and innumerable other evils.” – The Atlantic
For The First Time, Meredith Monk Allows Another Director To Stage Her Work
Says Yuval Sharon, who’s directing a revival of ATLAS for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, “It’s a big deal to me, and it’s a very big deal to Meredith. It’s a huge risk on one hand, but I feel it’s coming at a really important moment. The transference of her ideas is central to who she is and how she works.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
Why Our Notions Of Cultural Heritage Are Problematic
“Whether we look at political, economic or military capital, one thing is clear. Heritage is a top-down idea – it is defined and used by the most powerful members of society, rather than by society as a whole. Cultural heritage tells people – it does not ask them – what they should care about. How can we change this?” – Aeon
Edmund Morris, 79, Biographer Known For Unorthodox Approach To Ronald Reagan
He had been highly regarded for his multi-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt, the first book of which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer, when he shook up the literary and political worlds with a biography of Ronald Reagan that incorporated fictional elements, including a fictional “Edmund Morris.” – The Washington Post
Meet The Woman Who Spent 16 Years Stage Managing ‘Avenue Q’
Christine M. Daly: “There’s a spray that we use [on the puppets], but there’s not a lot you can do about it. You cannot wash their insides. That’s the hard part. We are probably the biggest users of Purell in the Northern Hemisphere.” – The New York Times