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After an immersive experience that took the world by storm, Van Gogh’s Starry Night is coming to your home—in 2,316 pieces. advertisement advertisement Starry Night set. Inspired by the Dutch painter’s iconic masterpiece, the set uses various techniques to capture the look of the original artwork: 3D elements help the moon, the 11 stars, and the famous swirling cloud stand out, while different-colored Lego bricks, stacked at specific intervals, emulate the signature brush strokes. Starry Night resting on an easel. All of them can be attached to the main set to make it look like Van Gogh is painting the scene unfolding in front of him—much like Van Gogh painted the view from his window in 1889, at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. Starry Night set was designed by Truman Cheng, a 25-year-old PhD student from Hong Kong. Cheng submitted his idea through the Lego Ideas platform, which gives fans the opportunity to submit their own … [Read more...] about See Lego’s stunning new set, which turns Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ into 3D art

The old adage that “time is money” goes way back. It’s typically credited to Benjamin Franklin, and it describes the long held belief that more time spent working equals more success. And that may have been true at one time, for some anyway. In the agricultural era, more time in the fields meant  more crops getting planted or harvested (of course, that only worked for the owner of those crops or those being paid by the hour or bushel to work the fields, rather than slave labor or indentured servants). Even still, much agricultural work was unlikely to continue after sundown and it’s often seasonal, unlike what took root during the Industrial Revolution when a large part of the labor force moved from field to factory to work on a set daily schedule. advertisement advertisement As journalist Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving , put it: “Before the industrial age, time was measured in days … [Read more...] about Why the 9-to-5 schedule has lost its place in the workplace

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Baseball’s reigning World Champions are finding the road to repeating filled with potholes. The Atlanta Braves, for the second straight year, are struggling to stay afloat in a National League East they have won four years in a row. With Memorial Day weekend around the corner, the Braves have had more than their share of disappointments, including injuries, but also have reason to hope for better things soon. Here are five reasons they won’t become the first repeat world champions since the New York Yankees won three straight from 1998-2000: 1. No Freddie Freeman – After spending his entire 12-year career in Atlanta, the Face of the Franchise found himself without a job when the Braves traded four top prospects to the Oakland Athletics for fellow first baseman Matt Olson, an Atlanta native who’s younger and cheaper, in March. Freeman, 32, soon signed with the Dodgers (six years for $162 million), allowing him to … [Read more...] about Five Reasons The Braves Won’t Repeat And Five Reasons They Will