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Sunday, October 29, 2023

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

'The Boy Who Lived' Documentary Release Date, Trailer, Where To Watch, and More

The Mary Sue: Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to serve as executive producer of David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, a documentary about the actor’s Harry Potter stunt double. Holmes served as Radcliffe’s double for all the Harry Potter films before suffering a tragic accident on set that left him paralyzed.

Zooming in on our brains on Zoom

YaleNews: When Yale neuroscientist Joy Hirsch used sophisticated imaging tools to track in real time the brain activity of two people engaged in conversation, she discovered an intricate choreography of neural activity in areas of the brain that govern social interactions. When she performed similar experiments with two people talking on Zoom, the ubiquitous video conferencing platform, she observed a much different neurological landscape.

How to Stop Procrastinating (Figure Out What Kind of Procrastinator You Are)

lifehacker.com: You have a big test or project looming, but can’t seem to force yourself to prepare for it at all. You’ll even do other things—like clean your room or call your family—that you normally hate, just to put off studying. You might think you’re just avoiding work, but you’re probably procrastinating for a real reason, and you need to figure out why.

Table Saw Safety Practices

JLC Online: We sent out a survey over the course of a few weeks and received nearly a thousand responses. The survey covered practices relating to tool use on a jobsite or in a shop - and included table saws, miter saws, circular saws, routers, hammer drills, as well as personal protective equipment and first aid.

An Approach to Content Warnings in the Theatre Classroom

HowlRound Theatre Commons: A year ago, I enrolled in a graduate course about Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) which required students to study several plays for audiences as young as two and up through their late teens and early twenties. All of the students in this class, including myself, were masters students in a Theatre Education and Applied Theatre program. Most of the students in that class intended to teach at the K-12 or collegiate level. And most, but not all, of the students in the class were white women between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-five.

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