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Why your social media habit is probably not an addiction – new research
Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com Social media apps are useful sources of information. They help us catch up with the activities of friends, news, current affairs, government COVID updates and the latest happenings in celebrity and sport. But during the pandemic, you may have felt you spend too much time on social media. On occasion you may have seen the phrase “social media detox” posted by users who want to stop their social media use entirely for a period of time, presumably because they feel that it’s become excessive. With concerns about the frequency of social media use, particularly among young people, allied with…
Dinosaurs: how our understanding of what they looked like keeps changing
Microraptor: fossils show it had feathers on each limb. Michael Rosskothen via Shutterstock This is a transcript of episode 11 of The Conversation Weekly podcast Dinosaurs: from giant reptiles to warm-blooded, feathered creatures, how our understanding of what they looked like has changed. In this episode, how new discoveries have changed our understanding of what dinosaurs looked like – and helped shed light on bigger questions about evolution. And after Israel’s fourth election in two years ended in another political stalemate, we speak to a foreign policy expert on what this could mean for the Middle East. Gemma Ware: Hello…
Moderation Effects of Ethnic-Racial Identity on Disordered Eating and Ethnicity Among Asian and Caucasian Americans
Background: The current study was designed to examine whether ethnic-racial identity (ERI) moderated the relationship between disordered eating and primary ethnic identification. Methods: Three hundred and ninety-eight undergraduate women (Mage = 19.95, SD = 3.09) were recruited from a large university in Hawai‘i. Participants completed the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), the ERI measure, and reported their primary ethnicity as an index of ethnicity. Results: There was a significant correlation between eating concerns and centrality, r(357) = 0.127, p < 0.05. Moderation analyses indicated that only ERI centrality moderated the predictive effect of ethnicity on the importance of eating concerns,…
Putting Attention on the Spot in Coaching: Shifting to an External Focus of Attention With Imagery Techniques to Improve Basketball Free-Throw Shooting Performance
Attentional focus is an area that has garnered considerable attention in the sport psychology and motor performance literature. This is unsurprising given that attentional focus has been directly linked to performance outcomes and is susceptible to coaching input. While research has amassed supporting benefits of an external focus of attention (EFA) on motor performance using verbal instruction, other studies have challenged the notion that an EFA is more beneficial than an internal focus of attention (IFA) for sport-related performance. Further, it is unclear what type of instructions may serve to direct an athlete to an EFA and, in particular, if…
La Soufrière volcano: before-and-after
Image: False-colour images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 show the aftermath of the explosive volcanic eruption that took place on 9 April 2021 on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Source: http://www.esa.int/rssfeed/Our_Activities/Space_News
La Soufrière volcano: before-and-after
Image: False-colour images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 show the aftermath of the explosive volcanic eruption that took place on 9 April 2021 on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Read Full article: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/04/La_Soufriere_volcano_before-and-after
Lower house of U.K. parliament to vote on declaring Uyghur oppression a genocide
The House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the U.K.’s parliament, is set to vote next week on a motion to declare the Chinese government’s actions in the Uyghur Region—which include systematic forced labor—a genocide. Collective decisions on genocide are uncommon but not unheard of in the U.K. parliament, which in 2016 declared that the Yazidis, an ethnic group in northern Iraq, had suffered genocide at the hands of the Islamic State. But because next week’s motion involves potentially accusing a fellow member of the U.N. Security Council, rather than a non-state terrorist group, the political and…
UK Covid live: government officials voice ‘urgent’ concerns over rapid testing
Latest updates: Rising number of false positives means officials consider scaling back mass testing of asymptomatic people, leaked emails show Rapid testing in England may be scaled back over false positives Variant first detected in India is found in the UK Workers in insecure jobs twice as likely to die of Covid, research finds Global coronavirus updates – live 11.51am BST These are the latest Covid numbers in London from City Hall. On Tuesday it was announced that surge testing would be carried out in Lambeth and Wandsworth in south London after 44 confirmed cases and 30 further probable cases…
Trial Extended: XR versus Shell in Crown Court – ‘Shell still knows’
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.uk, ronan.mcnern@gmail.com Phone: +44(0)7479234522 / +44(0)7918165046Shell 7: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter |Photos and videos for Shell 7 plus more hereXRUK: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#Shell7 #ExtinctionRebellion #StopEcocide NB. As the defence begins, updates will be posted here. 16 April, London, UK: The jury trial of seven people – including two Extinction Rebellion co-founders – charged with £25K worth of criminal damage at Shell’s London HQ which is currently taking place at Southwark Crown Court in London has been extended to 2-3 weeks. Now into its fifth day, the defence is due to start its case today. Extinction Rebellion hopes the trial will further the conversation as to who the real criminals are in the context…
Hong Kong: Jailing of opposition figures over protests is violation of international law
Responding to the sentencing of 10 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists to between eight and 18 months in prison for taking part in two “unauthorized” protests in August 2019, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Yamini Mishra said: “The wrongful prosecution, conviction and sentencing of these 10 activists underlines the Hong Kong government’s intention to eliminate all political opposition in the city. “Having arrested the majority of Hong Kong’s most prominent dissidents using the repressive national security law, the authorities are now mopping up remaining peaceful critics under the pretext of bogus charges related to the 2019 protests. “These convictions are a…
Traffic wars: who will win the battle for city streets? – podcast
Radical new plans to reduce traffic and limit our dependence on cars have sparked bitter conflict. As legal challenges escalate, will Britain’s great traffic experiment be shut down before we have time to see the benefits? By Niamh McIntyre Continue reading… Source – Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/apr/16/traffic-wars-who-will-win-the-battle-for-city-streets-podcast
Learning to live with COVID – the tough choices ahead
SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Stock Photo As mass vaccination continues to be rolled out, the UK is beginning to see encouraging signs that the number of COVID deaths is reducing, and that the vaccines may be reducing the transmission of coronavirus. While this is very welcome news, a mass vaccination programme is unlikely to be enough to eliminate the virus, so we need to turn our thoughts towards the ethics of the long-term management of COVID-19. One strategy would be to aim for the elimination of the virus within the UK. New Zealand successfully implemented an elimination strategy earlier in the…