Oversight Board Comment on Facebook ’s Suspension of Donald Trump
Will DuffieldI submitted the following public comment to the Oversight Board regarding their review of Facebook ’s decision to indefinitely suspend President Donald Trump.2021-001-FB-FBR Public CommentWill Duffield, Policy Analyst, Cato InstituteThis public comment addresses deficiencies in Facebook ’s initial justification for its suspension of President Trump and examines how the current broad application of the newsworthiness principle to politicians undermines the legitimacy of Facebook’s Community Standards.Facebook had ample justification to suspend President Trump after the Capitol riot under its prohibition o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 19, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
Astronauts And Ambivalence: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
Researchers have used virtual reality to explore how art and nature elicit feelings of the sublime. The team compared people’s emotional responses when they saw a 360° VR version of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night to when they saw a realistic portrayal of the actual area depicted in the painting. They found that both VR videos induced sublime feelings — but participants’ responses were more intense for the naturalistic video, reports Sarah Wells at Inverse.
We’re often expected to fall firmly on one side or the other of an is...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
Immediate Solutions for Migrant Children
Conclusion: Long-Term Solutions NeededThe Biden administration has options to reduce illegal entries by unaccompanied children. First, it should immediately rescind Title 42 to allow children to cross with their parents without fear of immediate expulsion and homelessness in Mexico. Second, it should stop separating “unaccompanied” children from extended family members like aunts, uncles, and grandparents and release them together to free up space for truly unaccompanied children. Third, it should restart processing asylum applicants—particularly families and unaccompanied children—at ports of entry to prevent ille...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
poem
Winter RequiemDying days of light snow,Giant flakes fluttering down like ashes.No one ever mourns the end of winter.The sputterings of spring in early March elicitEager hope rather than sad remembrancesOf frozen days of the dark solstice.Let us acknowledge this morning of silenceTo honor the passing of the frigid balm.We ought to thank itFor its blanketing solace,For its unexpectant calm,For the space that opensUp when it freezesAnd all the water expands To become the ice for our bruisesAnd the snow to soothe our open wounds.The end of summer evokes the melancholy Last days by the sea shore,The way the wave...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 14, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 46, Thursday March 11
THCB Gang featured lawyer & privacy expert Deven McGraw, (@Healthprivacy), Health IT girl and WTF Health Host Jessica DaMassa (@jessdamassa), and policy expert consultant/author Rosemarie Day @Rosemarie_Day1). We’ve had far too many Y chromosomes on lately but also joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) for this one will be futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve) and Fard Johnmar (@fardj), from digital health consultancy Enspektos.
We dove into the health care implications of the new $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, and had a great chat about where health and digital health go next.
If you’d rather listen to th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Deven McGraw fard johnmar Ian Morrison Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Robin Farmanfarmaian rosemarie day Source Type: blogs
8 Foods I ’ve Added to My Diet to Enhance My Health
Some nutritionists believe that food is medicine. I’m not sure if I want to go through life taking nothing but chicken soup every time I get sick, but I pay attention to what I put in my mouth and its effects on my body.
As a result, I’ve eliminated many products from my meals over the years, but what I gave up, I made up for in healthier additions. Here are eight foods I’ve added to my diet to enhance my health and why.
1. Beets
Your thoughts might not turn to this root vegetable until it’s time to make red beet eggs for your next picnic. However, including more of them in your weekly diet could help your...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kara Reynolds Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement food mental health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Children As Young As Eight Show A Gender Gap In Negotiation
By Emma Young
Though the gender pay gap is narrowing in the UK, it still remains. It’s vital, then, to fully understand what causes it — and so what can be done to ensure that women are paid the same as men for doing the same work. Research does show that women are less likely than men to initiate salary negotiations, and also ask for less. Now a new study in Psychological Science reveals that a gender gap in negotiation emerges surprisingly early, becoming apparent among children aged just eight to nine. This implies that efforts to close the gender pay gap should start long before anyone even enters the workf...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Source Type: blogs
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ChernobylPre-teen girls all want to know:Why am I always so mad?Why does my heart pound?What is this raging low hum Thrum, like the swarm of beesHoled up in our garage wallThat no one else seems to hear?Of all the things to wonder.Ask me about sedatives, I say,Or the best way to peel an orangeOr how to train for a 5K.Let ’s figure out the rest,All the things that bewilder and vex.One at a time.Sit with me.Take out your mathAnd we ’ll find the greatest common factor.If you have to cry, then cryI ’ll find a box of Kleenex.Let ’s kill some timeAnd match up the missing socksCollected in all these baskets.But don ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 11, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Longer Interview Shortlists Could Help Women Advance In Male-Dominated Industries
By Emily Reynolds
Despite many efforts to make workplaces more equitable, women are still frequently discriminated against at work. Companies run by women are judged more harshly on ethical failings, for instance, and women are more likely to be lied to in performance reviews. This discrimination doesn’t just happen in the workplace: it can happen before someone is even employed. A study from last year, for example, found that Black women with natural hair are seen as less competent and professional than their White counterparts when interviewing for jobs.
Now a new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, has ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Gender Occupational Source Type: blogs
How chess can make you a better physician
“Checkmate,” she whispered. A silent wave swept across the tournament area. Players turned their heads in our direction, eager to see who had lost 30 seconds into the round. It was me—I had fallen victim to the infamous four-move checkmate. My opponent, a five-year-old girl who could barely re ach the other side of the chessboard, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 19, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/leonard-wang" rel="tag" > Leonard Wang < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
Generation Q(uarantine): Children Of The Pandemic
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on existing problems that some call the biggest pandemic issue we face today: mental health. “Good mental health is absolutely fundamental to overall health and well-being,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. And children are particularly affected.
A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear that had been there before added up, and investigation found rise in school safeguarding reports, eating disorders and sleeping pill prescriptions. Parents struggle to get help, and, as a social worker in the UK put it “everybody feels anxious at the moment. Yo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare Policy Medical Education depression Hospital digital technology children mental health anxiety WHO lockdown child rights Human Rights Watch UNICEF quarantine Generati Source Type: blogs
Saying That Girls Are “Just As Good” As Boys At Maths Can Inadvertently Perpetuate Gender Stereotypes
By Emma Young
Though girls and boys do equally well on maths tests, the stereotype that girls aren’t as naturally able at maths — or as likely to be extremely smart — is adopted early; even 6-year-olds in the US endorse it. Of course, these stereotypes harm women in an educational setting and in their professional lives, point out the authors of a new study in Developmental Psychology. So it’s important to understand what gives rise to them. Eleanor Chestnut at Stanford University and her colleagues now report that one common and well-intentioned way of attempting to convey girls’ equality with boys actually...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Educational Gender Source Type: blogs
Admiral Lord Nelson and vaccinations
The links for Nelson and Emma Hamilton are to pages at the National Portrait Gallery. The link to the National Maritime Museum is to its Research Guide, with biography and details of sources held at the Museum.Horatio, Admiral Lord Nelson came up in conversations when I was growing up. Not because he fought the French (!), or because he had an affair (tut, tut), but because he was from Norfolk, as my Dad was, and as my maternal grandmother was. Dad left Norfolk when he was 8 or 9, for the Fens, but always felt very much a Norfolkman. Nanny Shiplee had left as a toddler, but only got ...
Source: Browsing - February 14, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: vaccines Source Type: blogs
Yes, your doctor was a sorority girl
Patients often comment on my attire other than my white coat, particularly my impractical footwear, until I finally broke down and purchased Danskos to avoid being called out for my truthful impracticality. It is amazing how patients care more about my orthotics than remembering the reason they scheduled a visit with me, and God bless them […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/erika-argona-do" rel="tag" > Erika Argona, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Medical school Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Young people ’s mental and emotional health: trajectories and drivers in childhood and adolescence
Education Policy Institute -Based on data from the Millennium Cohort Study, this report reveals insights into the determinants of young people ’s wellbeing, including how it is affected by their relationships, background, and use of social media. The study examines the personal experiences of young people in England, at age eleven, fourteen and seventeen. The research shows that while the wellbeing of all young people declines by the end of their teenage years, there is a strong gender divide within this: girls see far lower levels of wellbeing and self-esteem than boys – driven by a sharp fall of both during mid-adole...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 27, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
