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Sunday, February 03, 2019

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Who is Being Triggered?

HowlRound Theatre Commons: I doubt anyone involved in both theatre and social media has missed out on the perennial fracas over trigger warnings in the theatre, and whether or not our increased sensitivity to trauma and aggression spells doom for the art form. This conversation, though, seems to focus almost solely on the artist-patron relationship and neglects a much more fundamental place where these changes are playing out: our classrooms.

Is It Possible to Repay Your Sleep Debt? Why Being Well Rested Matters

www.lifehack.org: You may think that not getting enough sleep will just make you incredibly tired and a little irritable, but it goes beyond that. It can lead to health problems such as heart disease, weight gain, diabetes, and memory loss.

Most adults have incredibly busy lives. From trying to raise a family to working a full-time job and everything that happens in between, there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

'I get to feel human again': How arts programs in prisons are bringing new hope to incarcerated individuals

www.today.com: At Sing Sing Correctional Facility, one of the oldest and most notorious prisons in America, an arts rehabilitation program helps inmates process their emotions and prepare for life on the outside through the art of dance, music, visual arts and acting.

'One Man's Trash': Peter Kokis's 100%-Recycled Robots

The Atlantic: There’s nothing, it would seem, that Peter Kokis can’t turn into a robot. The Brooklyn performance artist makes cyborgs out of 100 percent recycled materials—oftentimes salvaged from the trash. He builds the 170-pound costumes on his kitchen table. When he’s done, Kokis parades through the streets, a veritable Transformer among mortals.

LA Rams Cheerleading Squad to Feature Men at the Super Bowl

jezebel.com: For the first time in the history of the Super Bowl, men will be not only be destroying each other’s bodies on the field in order to make their billionaire owners even more wealthy, but dancing as part of one team’s (poorly compensated) cheerleading squad.

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