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Sunday, September 28, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating articles of the past week:

A User's Guide To Standing While You Work

Fast Company | Business + Innovation: Five or more hours of sedentary sitting, according to Dr. David Agus, is the health equivalent of smoking a pack and a quarter of cigarettes. Yikes.

Yet, sitting around is something we get plenty of practice at. Reading and writing and creating on a computer makes for big chunks of sedentary time. If you’re reading this post right now, are you sitting down? How long have you been sitting?

Meyer Sound Transforms NYC Tunnel into Underwater Sound Installation

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: This summer, undersea sounds captured by artist Jana Winderen temporarily transformed New York City's seven-block-long Park Avenue Tunnel in the immersive sound installation DIVE. The soundscape was heard through more than 60 Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers configured by Tony Myatt, a professor at the University of Surrey.

How to Be a Nice Hard-Ass

Remodeling: As a business owner and/or manager, there are times one needs to be—pardon the term—a hard-ass. It comes with the territory.

But this doesn’t always mean being a jerk. How do you avoid that?

How to Get Past "What Do You Do?"

Inc.com: There was an abundance of networking and small talk at HubSpot's massive INBOUND conference (there were more than 10,000 attendees) in Boston earlier this week. You can bet the question "What do you do?" arose hundreds, if not thousands of times.

But how many times did this particular question--or a snap judgment of the answer--annoy someone? That feeling is probably why a packed room came to hear branding and marketing expert C.C. Chapman give a talk called "Why I Hate The Question of "What Do You Do?"

Amazing video of people dancing on the wall of a building

sploid.gizmodo.com: This is Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeker suspended on the wall of Oakland's City Hall, dancing like some kind of fairies or angels. The effect of them moving over the building's façade as it if were the ground is disoriented but really beautiful. I can watch them doing this forever.

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