Via LLRX – Ukraine doomscrolling can harm your cognition as well as your mood – here’s what to do about it – What use are we in helping to solve difficult global challenges if we’re so depressed and cognitively depleted that we can’t think of the best actions to take? Ukraine doomscrolling can harm your cognition as well as your mood. Professors Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Chun Shen and Jianfeng Feng describe their research findings on what to do about it.
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Daily Archives: March 29, 2022
A Scientific Explanation for Your Urge to Sniff Old Books
LitHub – Jude Stewart Breaks Down the Chemical Reactions Behind Olfactory Bibliomania…”This is an intimate smell that’s not necessarily miniature. You can smell a single old book, riffle through its pages rapidly and let your nose bask in the scented breeze. But just as often you encounter this smell as a solid wall in a… Continue Reading
Elections Guide for Investigative Reporters: Introduction
Global Investigative Journalism Network: Editor’s Note: This is the introductory chapter of a new, five-part GIJN guide to investigating elections that will be serialized over the coming month. Look for the second installment, “Chapter 1: New Election-Digging Tools,” next week. Elections around the world face increasingly common threats, including disinformation campaigns, foreign interference, voter suppression, rising… Continue Reading
Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
GoogleBlogs: “In Google Docs, you can now select “Automatically detect Markdown” from Tools > Preferences to enable auto correcting for Markdown syntax, a lightweight markup language for applying formatting using plain text. Currently, Google Docs supports some Markdown syntax, such as: * or – followed by a space autocorrects to bullet points Various ways to… Continue Reading
Tracking Devices Reveal Where Recycling Really Goes
YouTube – “Bloomberg placed trackers in three plastic bags and dropped them in Tesco supermarket recycling bins around London. Their journey revealed a netherworld of contractors, brokers and exporters that looks less like the circular economy and more like a game of pass-the-buck.” Continue Reading
TIME 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022
“Which businesses and corporate leaders are shaping our future? That’s the question at the heart of TIME 100 Most Influential Companies, an annual list that highlights businesses making an extraordinary impact around the world. To assemble it, TIME solicits nominations across sectors including health care, entertainment, technology, and more from our global network of editors… Continue Reading
Pew Updated Global Indicators Database
“Pew Research Center’s Global Indicators Database holds roughly 20 years and more than 600,000 interviews worth of data on public opinion and attitudes from more than 60 publics around the world. The database contains information ranging from views of global powers like the United States and China, the world economy, ratings of world leaders and… Continue Reading
Ukrainian refugee crisis ranks among the world’s worst in recent history
Pew Research: “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. A month into the war, more than 3.7 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries – the sixth-largest refugee outflow over the past 60-plus years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of United Nations data. There are… Continue Reading
This Small-Town Newspaper Is the Last of Its Kind
Smithsonian Magazine: The “Saguache Crescent,” a weekly in a Colorado hamlet, still prints on the 19th-century technology known as linotype. A mechanical ruckus. Oiled metal clattering hard and loose. A room astounding in its clutter, alive with spinning gears, reciprocating arms, rattling chains. A single man at the controls, coaxing the steampunk contraption along. It’s… Continue Reading
How to Download Wikipedia for Offline, At-Your-Fingertips Reading
How to Geek – “Have you ever wished you could download Wikipedia in its entirety, and have a copy of it for yourself? There are a handful of ways to do just that — all you need is a third-party program and about 150 gigabytes of storage…” Continue Reading
