When asked to reflect on their lives, the participants older than 40 felt that time elapsed slowly in their childhood but then accelerated steadily through their teenage years into early adulthood. There are good reasons why older people may feel that way. When it comes to how we perceive time, humans can estimate the length…
Read More Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age?In late February, the Trump administration was publicly playing down the severity of the worsening coronavirus epidemic. But in private, White House officials had a different story — and that information was shared with top traders who made fortuitous bets against the market. Trump advisers conceded concerns about the coronavirus in private meetings with board members…
Read More Short everythingAlso read: Kamala Harris and the ‘Double Bind’ of Racism and Sexism Kamala Harris’s ‘Canadian Dream’ Her Voice? Her Name? G.O.P.’s Raw Personal Attacks on Kamala Harris How sexist, racist attacks on Kamala Harris have spread online — a case study Who is Kamala Harris? A look at the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee
Read More Kamala Harris Reading Guide: The Best Reporting on the Vice Presidential Candidateby Joseph Cranney, The Post and Courier Nov. 27, 2019, 5 a.m. EST This article was produced in partnership with The Post and Courier, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network Welcome to the magistrate courts of South Carolina, where citizens often must fend for themselves before judges lacking formal training in the law and whose…
Read More These Judges Can Have Less Training Than Barbers but Still Decide Thousands of Cases Each YearBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Updated 9:00 AM ET, Sat October 10, 2020 Black Americans pay more than any other group to own a home, a disparity that contributes to roughly half of the $130,000 retirement savings gap between Blacks and Whites, according to new study from MIT. Black homeowners pay more in mortgage interest, mortgage…
Read More Black Americans are paying more to own a home and falling further behindNo serious oil producer is going to put their oil in a plastic bottle or a clear bottle. Joanne Lacina, founder and president of Olive Oil Lovers Stick with extra virgin Look for a harvest date Use your senses Read the entire article HERE, please.
Read More Olive Oil HintsThe votes are in! The Earl of Avoirdupois, bear 747, is the 2020 Fat Bear Week Champion. No longer the runner-up, 747 fulfills the fate of the fat and fabulous as he heads off to hibernation. This year’s winner is a steely fluffball who weighs in at well over 1,400lbs. #FatBearWeek
Read More Fat Bear WeekLet’s look at implicit bias. All of us have implicit biases. Take Harvard’s Implicit Bias test HERE. Vox states, “According to a growing body of research and the researchers who created the test and maintain it at the Project Implicit website, the IAT is not good for predicting individual biases based on just one test. It requires a collection —…
Read More Implicit BiasI am nowhere near a doctor, although I was a Dr. Mom for many years. I don’t give medical advice. This is what I have in my baskets: bandages of different types and sizes thermometers (contactless and others) alcohol or sterile wipes disposable gloves disposable masks tweezers pulse oximeter blood pressure cuff sterile eye drops…
Read More What Do You Need in Your Home Health Kit?The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced today. Drs. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday received the prize for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries that have bettered…
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