A little roundup of some fun or good news in the last couple of weeks!
Firstly, my favorite story from the last couple of weeks - about Earth’s last chapter! A great article about it, in Smithsonian Magazine: They found a perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth! How cool is that?! 30,000 years old or thereabouts. The pictures are great. They had to hustle to preserve it before a storm - so glad they did!
In other excellent news, especially for ‘80s kids’, breakdancing will be an olympic sport in 2024 in Paris! The World Games are happening right now in Birmingham Alabama, and breakdancing has been a hit. Check out some amazing videos of some of the competition here and here. It makes my 47-year old knees hurt just to look at it.
I love that the Olympics is continuing to branch out a bit! My personal view is that if there are already big ‘World Cup-style’ competitions in your sport (soccer, cricket, tennis, American football etc), it doesn’t have as much value in the Olympics as other sports that don’t get so much attention - like the biathlon, or curling, or diving, volleyball, table tennis, fencing etc.
A huge experiment is happening - across around 70 companies - regarding a 4-day workweek. Perhaps this will be what really convinces or refutes the idea that we are more productive in less time and are happier when we have an extra day off! I have been experimenting with a 4-day workweek myself (on and off over the last several years) and on the whole, it does work better for me, but I find that I do have to be disciplined about getting the work done when I’m actually sitting at the desk! No faffing around :-)
And NASA’s James Webb telescope released its first images of deep (way deep) space on Tuesday! The telescope is seeing over 13 billion light years into space in one image, and more than 4.6 billion in another (about the age of the Earth). That’s amazing. We will get incredible insight into what the universe is up to (or at least WAS up to) from this telescope.
I hope you make some good news of your own this weekend!
-Anne