From the Newsroom
Jobs Confidential: 15 people reveal the truth about their work — The Observer
Priest:People don't really know if you're a real human or not. I was young when Iarrived at my parish and lots of my congregation gave me cutlery – because if I wasn't married, Iclearly didn't own cutlery. When Istarted dating someone that was really weird for people. It was weird for me, too – seeing them at the altar rail, knowing that we'd been snogging the night before.
INFOGRAPHIC: Does Music Make You Smarter? — Daily Infographic
Does music really make you smarter? I personally think so. Some of the smartest people I know are music majors. Music requires not only the creativity and maturity to make itbeautiful, it also requires some decent knowledge in math as well. Music involves counting beats and measures, and within that, sub-dividing those beats, like fractions. You must multitask between reading/playing the music, and looking at the conductor from time to time. It is all a very complex process that stimulates different parts of the brain at the same time. Perhaps that is why musicians are “smarter” than the average person.
-Allison Wang, Design Manager
How Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage is Changing, and What It Means — Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight (The New York Times)
Support for same-sex marriage is increasing — but is it doing so at a faster rate than in the past? Is it now safe to say that a majority approves it? How much of the shift is because people are changing their minds, as opposed to generational turnover? Is there still a gap between how well same-sex marriage performs in the polls and at the ballot booth? How many states would approve same-sex marriage today, and how many might do so by 2016?
-Don Casler, Opinion Editor
The New Rules of the Hyper-Social, Data-Drive, Actor-Friendly, Super-Seductive Platinum Age of Television: Rules 9 & 10 — Willa Paskin, Wired
The newArrested Developmentis not just a seven-hour movie. It’s something new—a collection of episodes released altogether that can be remixed and recombined and that gain something from each juxtaposition. Right now that’s a framework only Netflix can offer. Asked what the show would have been like had Showtime won its bid, Hurwitz says, “I know that storytelling-wise, saner ideas might have prevailed.”
Ted Kennedy Jr. Is (Finally) Ready for the Family Business — Mark Leibovich, The New York Times
He speaks in the patrician New England accent and nasal-honking intonations that conjure his father. He kept saying things like “I am entering a new phase of my life” and “I come from a family of public servants,” and it was perfectly clear what Ted Jr. had called me here to discuss. After a lifetime of entreaties, many from his father, the oldest son of Edward M. Kennedy was now, at 51, prepared to join the family business. In the musty parlance of his heritage, he was being “called to service.”
-Leslie Ye, Dartbeat Editor
Myth Making on Motorcycles — Dennis Lim, The New York Times
“I never felt more like Janet Leigh in my life,”Ryan Goslingsaid with his best straight face.
The filmmakerDerek Cianfrance, who has known Mr. Gosling for seven years and directed him in two films, chimed in, “You have a nice figure, like she does.”
Mr. Gosling replied: “The hair. That’s why I went platinum.”
-Jenny Che, Editor-in-Chief