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Quote of the Day

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour. 

- Chinese proverb

Music Break

Nothing like a little "Marche Slave" for Thursday night.

Classic

Team Culture

Wally Bock discusses four vital truths of team culture.

You Will Smile

The Hammock Papers has a very brief video of a child and a dog.

Watch it. You'll feel better.

[HT: Cultural Offering]

Memorable Messages

A presentation by Carmen Simon on "The Neuroscience of Memorable Content."

Okey-Doke

Althouse explores the term. 

I also thought it just meant "okay" but it has been a while since I've heard it used. It sounds like the sort of thing Rudy Vallee would say.

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Would you tour a museum naked? You may consider it if you visit the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia. MONA is an extremely innovative museum, increasing its financial viability each year and disturbing many conventions in the art world. While typical museums are aboveground, this one is underground. While typical museums are easy to access, this one is on an isolated island, in a working-class district. You don't access MONA by ascending massive staircases or passing between marble columns. You enter it via a tennis court. 

- From Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions by Carmen Simon

To Haboob or Not to Haboob?

Is my car in there somewhere?

Althouse points to objections from Texans over the use of "haboob" to describe what most Texans (and Arizonans) have long called a "dust storm."

The local weather reporters in Phoenix use "haboob" but we should consider the unique pressures of their position.

Since a weather reporter in Phoenix needs something exotic to spice up what must be one of the most boring jobs in the world, their eager adoption of the term should be forgiven.

That's provided they properly pronounce "rodeo."