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Sunday, February 07, 2016

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:
CNN.com: Doctors have started the procedures to assess brain death in Raphael Schumacher, the actor in a coma after being choked when a hanging scene he was performing went wrong.

‘Grease’ Fights Through Rain, Tragedy To Reach 12.2 Million

Pollstar: Fox’s live production of “Grease” fought rain, wind and personal tragedy to emerge a winner, with its audience of 12.2 million people eclipsing viewership for the last two musicals presented on NBC.

The Nielsen company said Fox’s audience was more than three times what the network typically gets for a Sunday night.

Creative people’s brains really do work differently

Quartz: What makes highly creative people different from the rest of us? In the 1960s, psychologist and creativity researcher Frank X. Barron set about finding out. Barron conducted a series of experiments on some of his generation’s most renowned thinkers in an attempt to isolate the unique spark of creative genius.

Publicity Rights For A Photobombing Horse? Owner Demands Cut Of Photo Prize

Techdirt: We've written many, many words on the ridiculousness of publicity rights, and how they're frequently abused to stifle perfectly reasonable activities. But this latest example really takes it up a notch. The owner of a horse in the UK is apparently demanding some of the prize a man won in a "selfie" contest, because the horse made a key "photobombing" appearance in the background

Marijuana Use and Its Impact on Workplace Safety and Productivity

Occupational Health & Safety: The number of people using marijuana in the United States is rising rapidly, and the impact of this increase is showing up at work. Drug testing services report more positive tests for marijuana, both in pre-employment drug screens and drug tests conducted for other reasons.

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