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Monday, December 04, 2023

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

How to sound smart in a meeting

www.fastcompany.com: You may be incredibly bright, but showing your intelligence in the moment can be challenging, like if you’re called on unexpectedly in a meeting. The most significant barrier to communicating effectively and sounding smart is the fact that we all get nervous

Is 32 hour workweek better than a 4 day week?

www.fastcompany.com: I often think about the Maggie Smith line in Downton Abbey “What is a weekend?” Being a Countess, she didn’t know what a weekend was because she had no workweek. But there was a time in the not so distant past when working Americans also had never heard of a weekend for the opposite reason: They often worked six or seven days a week.

History of Pittsburgh’s Mellon Institute & its extra column mystery

90.5 WESA: In Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood, there’s a massive temple to science. For nearly a century, the Mellon Institute has been a top research facility, helping to study air quality, create skinless hotdogs and even frozen orange juice.

CMU students, faculty and alumni help City Theatre celebrate 'Christmas at Pemberley'

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Not every city has the resources necessary for artists to enjoy a thriving career in their hometowns. Luckily for Kyle Haden, his hometown happens to be Pittsburgh. “As a kid who grew up here, it’s just cool to know that you don’t have to go far to have these possibilities,” said Haden, a Bethel Park native.

Top 10 Theater to be Grateful for in 2023

New York Theater: My yearly list of New York stage shows for which I’m most grateful, which I started posting every Thanksgiving more than a decade ago, returns more or less to normal this year, as the theater itself has returned more or less to normal, after a year of shutdown (and online innovation), a second year of reopening, and a third year of recovery.

 

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