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Sunday, February 07, 2021

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Can Planners Mandate Covid Vaccinations for Attendees?

www.meetingsnet.com: As the Covid-19 vaccination program rolls out over the course of 2021, meeting planners might be considering vaccination requirements for their in-person attendees. Is that legal?

One day, your home could be made with mushrooms

The Verge: Mushrooms are helping architects and engineers solve one the world’s biggest crises: climate change. These fungi are durable, biodegradable, and are proving to be a good alternative to more polluting materials.

5 Modern Rube Goldberg Machines That Are Brilliantly Nonsensical

mymodernmet.com: Remember the breakfast machine in Peewee's Big Adventure? Or perhaps “The Snoozatron” device in Wallace and Gromit? These wacky inventions—haphazardly built to perform simple tasks—aren’t just designed for movie sets. They’re real, and they're known as Rube Goldberg machines.

Studio Ghibli Theme Park Building Giant HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

Nerdist: It was way back in 2015 when we first learned that Studio Ghibli had plans for its very own theme park. That was basically a lifetime ago. Fortunately we won’t actually have to wait that long to visit. The amusement destination that will celebrate the beloved animation studio is moving along. And we mean that in more ways than one. The park has announced it is beginning construction on a giant recreation of the eponymous building from Howl’s Moving Castle.

Drama At French Opera: Real-Life Sabotage Winds Up In Court

Worldcrunch: A near fatal act of sabotage at a French opera house wound up in a courtroom last week, after a feud between stage hands offered an unsuspecting audience a moment of true drama six years ago. Let's rewind back to January 28, 2015, at the Théâtre du Capitole, in the southern French city of Toulouse, where Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, a five-hour tale of fated lovers, was building toward a dramatic finale. But on this particular night, the audience had no idea just how dramatic the ending would be.

 

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