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A choreographer and audiovisual artist bring the work of famed calligrapher, Tong Yang-Tze, to life on stage. If you were to draw a timeline of human civilization, you would probably place calligraphy towards the beginning, and robots towards the end. But earlier this month, both ends of the spectrum converged on the same stage.

Taking the lead on the follow-up ensures you aren’t creating space for a participant to second-guess or back out.    As a charity auctioneer who leads nightly bidding wars for worthy nonprofits, it’s not uncommon to run into a winning bidder after the auction ends and I walk offstage. Occasionally, one of them will laughingly confide they spent a great deal more than expected during the auction.

Doniel Sutton, chief people officer at Pinterest, explains why cracking down on flexibility is a mistake. The Washington Post recently announced that all employees will soon be required to work from an office five days per week—and became the latest in a long line of employers to force workers to return to the office (RTO). 

The new supersonic plane breaks the mold with a radical new shape and digital cockpit, but it relies on ancient parts to make it all happen. NASA’s X-59 Quesst experimental aircraft has taken a major leap forward, firing up its engine for the first time. This marks a crucial and final milestone as the team prepares the first runway and flight tests that will lead to a long series of trials that aim to prove what computational simulations have already proven: that supersonic flight can happen without the deafening sonic boom that marred and eventually grounded aircrafts like the Concorde.

Bali doesn’t have a waste management system. The Community Waste Project is an attempt to keep it from choking on its own garbage. Bali is a tale of two islands: the new-age, sun-kissed island where verdant rice fields rub shoulders with foam-licked beaches—and the traffic-choked, influencer-packed island drowning in waste.

A national gourmet foods distributor has bought a Denver-area organic foods company with plans to expand its reach. Florida-based Innovative Food Holdings Inc. bought Golden Organics for $1.75 million. The deal is expected to close in the next few weeks, said Bill Bennett, CEO of Innovative Food. Golden Organics is a specialty food distributor of predominantly organic, dry-good products in the Rocky Mountain region. Golden Organics will retain its name, Bennett said.