Terror Theater, Live in Paris | Climate Change Brings Donor Fatigue

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Wednesday Oct 30, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [Climate Change Is Wearing Donors Down]( As extreme weather events batter nations with growing frequency, donor fatigue is leaving the communities most vulnerable to climate change in even greater danger. When Prince Vo, a manager at a backpackers hostel in the southern Indian state of Kerala, rushed to a donation-collection center to contribute a week after disastrous floods in August, he couldn’t find one that was well-staffed or had remotely enough supplies for victims. “The response seemed cold — not even lukewarm,” he recalls. It was in stark contrast, he says, to a year earlier when, after similar floods, droves of volunteers swarmed collection centers to coordinate relief, as mainstream and social media revved up calls for urgent support. Yet it’s a response relief agencies across South and Southeast Asia are increasingly beginning to confront. As floods, droughts, typhoons and other extreme weather phenomena batter nations with growing frequency, donors are turning weary and selective, leaving [one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change]( even weaker in its ability to grapple with such mounting crises. This is incredibly dispiriting. [READ MORE]( 2 [The Huddle]( [The Huddle]( [There’s No Gender Gap for Winning Basketball Coaches]( It makes you wonder why coaching jobs overwhelmingly go to men. At the end of last season, Notre Dame head basketball coach Muffet McGraw said she was done hiring men. Few protested: Women are underrepresented in the college basketball coaching industry compared with men. Women make up 61 percent of women’s college basketball head coaches, but that number has fallen since its high of 66 percent in the 2009–10 season, and female coaches almost never get an opportunity on the men’s side, which greatly diminishes their career prospects. In fact, there has never been a female head coach in Division I men’s college basketball or the NBA. But recent data shows that’s not because men get better results. [READ MORE]( 3 [Good Sh*t]( [Good Sh*t]( [Get Your Heart Pumping With Paris’ Live Thriller]( This interactive theater experience, amid terrifying visuals and music, will scare you out of your wits. For hours after The Live Thriller ended, I was alive to every threat. Sitting in a Paris café with a glass of wine, people watching — a calm and time-honored activity — became murderer spotting. Every time a door slammed or a light flickered, I almost knocked over my glass. Blame it on Paris’ most engaging, exciting, absolutely terrifying interactive theater experience. Though it will likely appeal to the adrenaline-chasing escape room crowd, this isn’t an escape room: It’s more like being [inside a horror movie or video game](, where your decisions and ability to connect the dots affect the story. [READ MORE]( 4 [Provocateurs]( [How Viktor Orbán’s Son Found God Instead of Politics]( The Hungarian prime minister's only son, Gaspar Orbán, has found a different kind of calling. 5 [Acumen]( [Vanuatu’s Big Moneymaker: Selling Citizenship]( This Pacific nation offers easy access to Europe — but that may come back to bite it. 6 [Rising Stars]( [Winds, Waves and Water: A Plan for Quenching World Thirst]( Martin Drewes and Martina Findling developed an innovative water filtration system in Germany. The trick is making it scalable in Kenya. 7 [True Story]( [A Fashion Faux Pas for Halloween’s Tampon Terror]( When 365 days of Halloween planning comes face-to-face with a sudden burst of inspiration, who wins? 8 [Flashback]( [The Young Jewish Woman Who Blew Up Nazis]( Vitka Kempner led a group hellbent on vengeance in postwar Europe. 9 [Fast Forward]( [What Colorado’s Huge Voter Engagement Can Teach the Nation]( From drive-thru ballot boxes to high schooler election judges, this is the heartland of American civic duty. 10 [Good Sh*t]( [Remembering the Impact of the First Atomic Bomb Test]( Twice per year, visitors can walk the grounds where the world’s first nuclear device was exploded. You Should Know This [Ghost Stories: All That Goes Bump in the Night]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](