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Sunday, February 21, 2021

NWTRW Weekly Top Five

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

How to stop procrastinating with your online work

Big Think: If you take classes online, chances are you probably procrastinate from time to time. Research shows that more than 70% of college students procrastinate, with about 20% consistently doing it all the time.

Work better in a cafe? Being stuck at home kills creativity

Big Think: While the pandemic has caused thousands of small businesses to temporarily close or shutter for good, the disappearance of the corner coffee shop means more than lost wages. It also represents a collective loss of creativity.

My Touring Inspiration: Motivation In A Life On The Road

ProSoundWeb: Life has moments that change everything. A chance encounter, an opportunity taken, a door opened, and suddenly life pivots and nothing is ever the same again. An evening in 1988 was such a moment for me. As a very excited 12-year-old I went to my first gig, and as luck would have it I sat behind the front of house engineer. As the lights went down and it dawned on me what he was doing, my world shifted on its axis – this was a job? From that moment on, my mind was made up: I was going to be a live sound engineer and nothing and no one was going to stop me.

researchers develop transparent wood as an efficient alternative to glass

www.designboom.com: a team of materials scientists at the university of maryland have developed a new method of producing transparent wood. used primarily for housing, paper, and fuel, timber is one step closer to replacing glass and plastic windows. the advancement marks a potential new avenue for environmentally sustainable construction as transparent timber exceeds glass in its production efficiency and thermal insulation.

How the Year’s Most Beautiful Movie Costumes Were Made

Vanity Fair: “When you think of Billie Holiday, you automatically think of the gardenias in the hair,” says Paolo Nieddu, the Emmy-nominated costume designer (Empire) who re-created the jazz singer’s look for the Lee Daniels-directed biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday. While filming, however, gardenias were actually not in season—so Nieddu had to get creative. “We used some synthetic ones made from silk. In research, we found that Billie did wear orchids in her hair. So we did some fresh orchids too.”

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