“I played in a team until I was 14. Up until then I was pretty fearless. But then it suddenly moves up to another level, the guys playing it get bigger and the game gets much rougher. I was a late developer and when that puck comes towards you, it does some damage.”
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Sleep, The Disk Defrag For The Brain
“A new paper from some Stanford neuroscientists argues that the function of sleep is to reorganize neural connections – a bit like a disk defrag for the brain – although it’s also a bit like compressing files to make more room, and a bit like a system reset.”
Another Thing To Blame On David Foster Wallace
“How he both inadvertently created the voice of the Internet and ruined a generation of writers.”
TV’s Not Bad For You. And Twitter Isn’t Killing TV
“First, there is good news for traditional media types: It’s not true that social networking is killing traditional news and entertainment forums. As the TV networks have come to admit, social media are more ally than enemy. Second, contrary to a study released last week, watching TV won’t kill you.”
Chocolat: Hit Novel, Hit Movie, And Now Ballet
Eighteen-year-old choreographer Andrew McNicol has created a 35-minute dance based on Joanne Harris’s 1999 novel for Britain’s National Youth Ballet.
How Pro Theater Is Like Pro Wrestling (According To Playwright Kristoffer Diaz)
“There’s an independent wrestling scene, but the WWE [World Wrestling Entertainment] is essentially a monopoly. … If you’re a playwright who doesn’t want to do people-on-a-couch plays, there are not a lot of avenues. You can go and do television, or you can stay and fight with organizations that aren’t really equipped to support work by people of color or experiment with form.”
From The Guy Who Gave Philly A Giant Clothespin, A Giant Paintbrush
Claes Oldenburg, the “man who brought Philadelphia the Clothespin sculpture in 1976 sat in the shade of the Convention Center Saturday as his latest work, a 12,000-pound uplifted paintbrush, came together across Broad Street.”
How A Little Orange Dress Riled Up The Music Blogosphere
“She is one of the stars that’s ushering in a new era of technical perfection and polish. So how could you possibly be paying attention to the dress and not hearing what she’s doing? I just don’t buy it.”
Edinburgh Festival Warns London Olympics Could Suck Up All Its Technicians
“To build an event the size of the Olympics takes a hell of a lot of people in black T-Shirts. They are very, very skilled people and London is going to need a lot of them. At the moment, they are all here, but they will be in London next year.â€
What Happens To Words When They’re Not Used Anymore? (Do They Go Extinct?)
“Aerodrome and charabanc are among the words presumed to have become extinct in the past year, according to lexicographers. Collins Dictionary experts have compiled a list of words which have fallen out of use by tracking how often they appear.”