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3Apr

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ENVIRONMENT, VIDEO REELS

‘Vaccinating’ Frogs May Or May Not Protect Them Against A Pandemic – But It Does Provide Another Option For Conservation

When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me were not too surprised. Some were intrigued it hadn’t happened sooner; after all, it is our job to observe, describe and study pandemic dynamics in animals. Amphibians, for example, have been undergoing a global panzootic – the animal version of a pandemic – for decades. In the late 1990s, researchers identified the amphibian chytrid fungus, which causes the often-lethal disease chytridiomycosis, as the probable culprit behind frog and salamander declines and extinctions from Australia to Central America and elsewhere that began 10, 20 or even 30 years before. Scientists have found this pathogen on every continent that amphibians inhabit, and the extensive global amphibian trade has likely spread highly l...

Will The New COVID-19 Variant BA.2, Cause Another Wave Of Infections In The US?

4Apr

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COVID-19, HEALTH & WELLNESS, IN OTHER NEWS

Will The New COVID-19 Variant BA.2, Cause Another Wave Of Infections In The US?

A new omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19, BA.2, is quickly becoming the predominant source of infections amid rising cases around the world. Immunologists Prakash Nagarkatti and Mitzi Nagarkatti of the University of South Carolina explain what makes it different from previous variants, whether there will be another surge in the U.S. and how best to protect yourself. What is BA.2, and how is it related to omicron? BA.2 is the latest subvariant of omicron, the dominant strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. While the origin of BA.2 is still unclear, it has quickly become the dominant strain in many countries, including India, Denmark and South Africa. It is continuing to spread in Europe, Asia and many parts of the world. The omicron variant, officially known...

11Jan

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CELEBRITY NEWS

Jeffery Epstein – Just Another Thought

For many years to come, book makers will struggle to fully discover the person and the operation of Jeffery Epstein, the American Millionaire pedophile convict who recently committed suicide in a New York prison while awaiting trial for sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. He lived and died for sex. His looked like a depraved rich, highly - connected very intelligent man who unfortunately had a very prolonged and tortuous battle with unbridled libido and very powerful sex demons that eventually ended fatally. Yes. So much have been written and said about this man, but none has tried to look at the likely spiritual aspect of the incurable sex addict, who used everything he had: connections and tremendous wealth to pursue an insatiable thirst for immoral relationship with teenagers. Th...

Out-Of-Sync Brainwaves Could Be Another Reason Videoconferencing Is Such A Drag

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

Out-Of-Sync Brainwaves Could Be Another Reason Videoconferencing Is Such A Drag

During the pandemic, video calls became a way for me to connect with my aunt in a nursing home and with my extended family during holidays. Zoom was how I enjoyed trivia nights, happy hours and live performances. As a university professor, Zoom was also the way I conducted all of my work meetings, mentoring and teaching. But I often felt drained after Zoom sessions, even some of those that I had scheduled for fun. Several well-known factors – intense eye contact, slightly misaligned eye contact, being on camera, limited body movement, lack of nonverbal communication – contribute to Zoom fatigue. But I was curious about why conversation felt more laborious and awkward over Zoom and other video-conferencing software, compared with in-person interactions. As a researcher who studies psychol...

22Oct

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LIFESTYLE

What Is ‘The Ick’? Another TikTok Trend

Raquel Peel, University of Southern Queensland “The ick”, much discussed on TikTok and Instagram lately, is where attraction to a current or potential partner is suddenly flipped to a feeling of disgust. It’s often triggered in an instant, social media users say, by witnessing some kind of turn-off – a bad dance move, a grating laugh, or an off-putting eating style. So what might be behind “the ick”? Are you letting ‘the ick’ undermine your chances in love? One possibility is this is a self-defensive mechanism or strategy to protect against relationship failure, fear of commitment, fear of intimacy, or rejection sensitivity. Models of relationship counselling practice explain attraction is a “flip flop” phenomenon, where the thing that attracts you to someone today can be the same th...

In One Way Or Another Madelaine Petsch The Foxy And Fiery Redhead Is Going To Take The World By Storm

9Oct

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CELEBRITIES

In One Way Or Another Madelaine Petsch The Foxy And Fiery Redhead Is Going To Take The World By Storm

This little South African stunner with her strawberry locks on top, might be one of the most searched for gingers on god's green earth, and rightfully so! Madelaine Petsch spent her early days splitting her time between Washington and South African, which is mom and dad's homeland, so she has an adorable accent to go along with her amazing rack and ravishing red hair too. She got her first role back in 2014 in the horror/sci-fi flick The Hive, then followed that up with another smaller role in the fantasy horror flick The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016), shortly there after. It wasn't until 2017 though, when Madelaine was cast on the massive teenage hit based on the original Archie comics, Riverdale, that made her a household name. She took on the role of Cheryl Blossom, a privileged r...

Trudeau Returned In Canada’s Status Quo Election With Another Minority, Faces Uncertain Future –

21Sep

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IN OTHER NEWS, POLITICS

Trudeau Returned In Canada’s Status Quo Election With Another Minority, Faces Uncertain Future –

Kimberly Speers, University of Victoria The 2021 Canadian election results were almost a mirror of the results of the 2019 vote. After calling an election in the middle of a fourth COVID-19 wave, Justin Trudeau’s gamble for a majority government failed. It won’t be an easy time for the re-elected Liberal minority government to lead. There are a multitude of crises the Liberals are returning to and must address — including the impact of climate change, housing affordability, opioid abuse and economic issues like deficit and debt management. The next election will need to be held by 2025, unless the Liberal government is defeated in a non-confidence motion. It seems likely that by then, voters will have tired of Trudeau and seek a change of vision — if he’s still leader. If the Liberals ...

A Place For Trans Youth To Find One Another And Explore Coming Out Was Created By The Early Internet

25May

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CULTURE, LGBTQ

A Place For Trans Youth To Find One Another And Explore Coming Out Was Created By The Early Internet

Follow coverage of trans issues, and you’ll hear some people say that teens who change their gender identity are participating in a fad, and that social media is the culprit. As one proponent of legislation that would restrict access to care for trans teens claimed, social media platforms are where trans youths are falsely “convinced” that their feelings of identifying as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth – known as gender dysphoria – are valid. These fears of Instagram, Tumblr and TikTok as breeding grounds for instilling gender dysphoria in young people recall other moral panics over new media, from the Victorian-era paranoia that serialized stories called “penny dreadfuls” were going to incite a youth crime wave to 20th-century anxiety over children’s exposure to v...

Another Blow To Black And Latino Students – Ending Testing For New York City’s Gifted Program

29Mar

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EDUCATION, Journalism

Another Blow To Black And Latino Students – Ending Testing For New York City’s Gifted Program

After years of relying on a single controversial test at age 4 for admission to their gifted programs, New York City schools are about to embark upon a new way to identify gifted students. The city’s Department of Education announced in February that it would stop testing students for its gifted program, which places top students in schools with curriculum designed for high academic achievement. Instead, preschool teachers will refer students for consideration. The city’s new schools chancellor, Meisha Porter, who was named to that post March 15, has said that overhauling the gifted and talented system is one of her top priorities. That means the new system likely won’t be long-term, though there’s still reason to be concerned. Research has shown that teacher referrals tend to lead to fe...

Ruby Bridges’ School Once A Symbol Of Desegregation, Now Reflects Another Battle Engulfing Public Education

13Nov

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EDUCATION

Ruby Bridges’ School Once A Symbol Of Desegregation, Now Reflects Another Battle Engulfing Public Education

On Nov. 14, 1960, after a long summer and autumn of volleys between the Louisiana Legislature and the federal courts, Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old Black girl, was allowed to enroll in an all-white school. Accompanied by federal marshals, Bridges entered William Frantz Public School – a small neighborhood school in New Orleans’ Upper Ninth Ward. If that building’s walls could talk, they certainly would tell the well-known story of its desegregation. But those same walls could tell another story, too. That story is about continued racism as well as efforts to dismantle and privatize public education in America over the past six decades. As scholars of education, we combed through multiple archives to uncover this story. A civil rights landmark News outlets covering the Ruby Bridges story pub...