What we are reading the week of July 31, 2024.

It has been a wild week with lots of news about the Olympics and the continuing story of CrowdStrike.
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Three Of The Most Popular DEI Myths Debunked
Since the 2020 DEI boom, critics have promoted different myths about DEI. This article explores the most popular DEI myths and provides evidence to debunk them.

Grindr has been ‘blocked’ in the Paris Olympic Village
The ‘explore’ function on the hook-up app has been limited meaning people won’t be able to find any profiles where more than 14,000 athletes will be based.

J.D. Vance has made it impossible for Trump to run away from Project 2025
He wrote the foreword for a new book by Project 2025’s architect — and has backed some of its most extreme ideas.

Can Paris as Olympic host renew enthusiasm for the Games?
Paris hopes to restore to the Games that mythical quality that for so long allowed it to exist as something so much more than sport.

Gojira Will Become The First Metal Band To Perform At The Olympics
The French extreme metal outfit Gojira have been announced as one of few artists gearing up to perform at the XXXIII Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Olympics Organizers Apologize After Drag Queen ‘Last Supper’ Slammed By Conservatives
“The Last Supper” by Leonardo Da Vinci depicts Jesus and the 12 apostles the night before his crucifixion.

Strange Workplace Etiquette of the 1960s
The 1960s were a decade of profound social change in the U.S., as movements for civil rights and gender equality gained momentum across the country. While the standard American workplace was not immune to these changes, etiquette on the job still tended to reflect postwar traditionalism and formality. In offices of all kinds, people were expected to dress up and respect their superiors. Women held lower positions that didn’t pay nearly as much as men’s roles, racial diversity was sorely lacking, and behaviors that are now considered unhealthy and unprofessional could be everyday occurrences on the job. Here are some of the more surprising aspects of workplace etiquette during the 1960s.Advertisement Smoking at the Office Today, the thought of people puffing away on cigarettes at their desks seems too bizarre to have ever been the norm. But in the 1960s, approximately 42% of ...Read More

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