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Sunday, November 24, 2019

NFTRW Top Five

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

How Much Rest You Need to Prevent Burnout

lifehacker.com: Most of us already know that if we don’t get enough time to rest and recuperate between stressful tasks, we risk burning ourselves out. But how much rest do we actually need?

According to Drs. Emily and Amelia Nagoski, we should try to spend roughly 42 percent of our time at rest. That’s eight hours of sleep and two hours of non-sleep relaxation per day.

Coldplay to pause touring until concerts are 'environmentally beneficial'

BBC News: Coldplay have put plans to tour their new album on hold, due to concerns over the environmental impact of concerts.

"We're not touring this album," frontman Chris Martin told BBC News.

"We're taking time over the next year or two, to work out how our tour can not only be sustainable [but] how can it be actively beneficial."

Cameraman, 54, who was killed while shooting a stunt could have been the victim of costcutting

Daily Mail Online: A cameraman who was killed when a stunt went wrong on a top BBC and Netflix drama could have been the victim of cost-cutting by the production company, an inquest heard.

Experienced cameraman Mark Milsome - who previously worked on Game of Thrones and Saving Private Ryan - died after being hit by a Land Rover Defender performing a stunt in Ghana for the series Black Earth Rising.

The Hadestown trombone part is the best Broadway trombone part ever.

slate.com: Since the Broadway musical Hadestown opened on April 17, it has run for 237 shows, many of them selling out the 945-seat Walter Kerr Theatre. Thus, around 200,000 audience members have experienced Anaïs Mitchell’s lovely music, Rachel Chavkin’s inventive directing, and the award-winning cast. But if you’re a musician like me, you can’t help but notice that many of the responses on social media are making more or less the same joke

Gender-Conscious Casting

At This Stage: When it comes to transgender rights, we live in a society on the cusp of a major epistemological shift. This leap moves away from binary gender norms, which position men as mutually exclusive to that of women. We are moving towards a culture that welcomes gender-nonconformity and fluidity, with more diverse ways of inhabiting the world. We just want people to be themselves. It is no surprise that break out stars, like Laverne Cox, have so quickly ascended to Hollywood royalty. But the entertainment industry has not always been forward-thinking when it comes to trans rights, visibility, or representation.

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