We therefore explored the degree to which moral foundations predicted a wider range of not only effective but ineffective (overreactive) preventative behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Study 1, participants from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States reported their engagement in...
^ What I find extra interesting about this data is that it was delivered pre-pandemic. I wonder if that red line went back up again when people were told that they had to distance themselves from everything. 3) Whoever would put “Facebook” and “Love” in the same sentence should aut...
With pandemic restrictions still in place, my sessions with mum have become the ___ of my day. Some days I drop by as many as three times. While Physical distancing may keep people away, it may also ___ those afar. 1. A.visits B.adventures C.days D.dates 2. A.similar B.normal ...
This is real easy nowadays with the Internet! And there is the previous investment thing that Ken Campbell mentions in the hockey book. The longer you pursue a particular goal, the more resources you put into the pursuit, the harder it is to stop, even when success isn’t likely. This e...
While there is considerable literature about online and offline modes of communication, it is often focused on how the two interrelate rather than whether people prefer one over the other. Such research has looked at how the two influence each other, especially in the realm of politics (Baumgart...
It can be hard to be allowed to die - and I am not talking about euthanasia which is a deliberate act designed to kill. If I was dying of advancedcancerwith many complications I would make it clear that my next pneumonia should be my last. There is no need to "strive officiously to...
is a matrix-free algorithm to find a minimizer associated with regularized reaper which is also suited to high-dimensional data. The algorithm couples a primal-dual minimization method with a thick-restarted Lanczos procedure. This seems to be the very first efficient convex variational way for ...
This is a perfect example of how the negative impacts of climate change are already here, and are also baked in (sorry) for the foreseeable future. The urgency of taking radical, global climate action now is not about reversing already predicted effects. It is about preventing predicted effects...
members of gebru’s team joined a tearful google meet video call that lasted until early the next morning. in normal times, they might have hugged and huddled in a bar or someone’s home; in a pandemic they sniffled alone over their laptops. two weeks later, the remaining team members ...
The questioned spending came from Stitt’s Bridge the Gap Digital Wallet program, which gave $1,500 grants to low-income families for educational purchases like computers and school supplies during the pandemic. Auditors pinpointed questionable expenditures like arcade games, Christmas trees, smart wa...