This American Life:
We've discovered that one of our most popular episodes contained
numerous fabrications. This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey's
story about visiting Foxconn, which makes iPads and other products for
Apple in China. Marketplace's China correspondent Rob Schmitz discovered
the fabrications.
Salon.com:
Everybody knew that eight hours a day was pretty much the limit for a
guy swinging a hammer or a shovel; but those grey-flannel guys are just
sitting at desks. We’re paying them more; shouldn’t we be able to ask
more of them?
The short answer is: no. In fact, research shows
that knowledge workers actually have fewer good hours in a day than
manual laborers do — on average, about six hours, as opposed to eight.
Telegraph:
Inspired by working with Kevin Spacey, Sir Trevor Nunn has claimed that
American accents are "closer" than contemporary English to the accents
of those used in the Bard's day. The eminent Shakespearean scholar John
Barton has suggested that Shakespeare's accent would have sounded to
modern ears like a cross between a contemporary Irish, Yorkshire and
West Country accent.
Fast Company:
Project management seems like a classic chicken-and-egg career
conundrum: How do you prove you’re adept at managing projects if you
haven’t worked as a project manager? Beyond that, what does project
management really entail, and how is it different from, you know, being a
manager? And what tools do the pros actually use, since there seem to
be a new one released every week?
huffingtonpost:
WHAT DO WE WANT? WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Well, we want there to be more
women TV writers. In fact, a good number of you probably want to BE
women TV writers. And, now. We would like that now. Here is my argument
for why hiring women writers is a sensible thing to do. There are a lot
of reasons why a particular writer might not get hired to work on a
staff: lack of talent, inability to write to specifications,
combativeness, slowness, and offensive hygiene. In no rational world
does the sex of the writer deserve to be on that list.
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