Month: August 2021
Climate Change Effects on Tsunamis
Rising sea levels as a result of the melting of the polar ice caps promises to further extend the reach of such giant waves smashing towards coastal settlements in the aftermath of quakes, meaning the threat posed by any individual tsunami could be greatly enhanced by climate change should it be allowed to proceed unchecked.
Ask for prayers on Facebook
The prayer feature is part of Facebook’s recent and concerted outreach to the religious community, which it is speaking about in detail to media for the first time. Facebook sees worshippers as a vital community to drive engagement on the world’s largest social media platform. As early as 2017, CEO Mark Zuckerberg cited churches as
disappearing photos and videos on WhatsApp
WhatsApp is rolling out a feature that allows users to have photos or videos vanish after they are seen. After the recipient opens the image for the first time, “view once” deletes it, without saving it to a phone and the feature was aimed at “giving users even more control over their privacy”. However, child
Facebook and academics row
A row has blown up between Facebook and academics over the use of its data for reporting trends on the social network. The researchers said Facebook was now curtailing their work measuring vaccine disinformation, among other things. Members of the Cybersecurity for Democracy team, based at New York University, tweeted they had had their accounts
litigation on climate change
Climate change is probably the biggest threat to face humanity in the 21st century but activism seems to increasingly be moving from the streets and online into the courts. While street protest movements such as Extinction Rebellion raised a massive amount of awareness globally, a growing number of environmental and human rights activists and lawyers
Increasing Mental Disorders
Mental Disorder which is a syndrome characterised by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning which are normally with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. There has been a mental health epidemic
Affective Forecasting
Affective forecasting, also known as hedonic forecasting, is predicting how you will feel in the future. People tend to be inaccurate in forecasting how they might feel later. They also tend to overestimate how positive or negative they would feel about future situations. affective forecasting finds its way into daily living. On the morning of
Desirable Partner Traits
a lot of what people expect about what we want in partners who can stay the course, while adding nuance to our understanding of which factors are more important over time, and which ones fall by the wayside .Understanding what general partner traits drive relationship satisfaction and durability can allow us to reflect on our
rise of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder a
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and can be defined by an inability to pay attention, impulsivity, excessive energy and hyper-fixation. It is a neurodevelopmental disorder that mostly effects children but often persists into adulthood, and has become the most common mental health condition to affect children in recent years on a global scale. This has caused a
Tunisian political crisis
On the 25th of July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied suspended Parliament, sacked Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, and removed parliamentary immunity for members of parliament. Saied granted himself interim executive powers and appointed himself the equivalent of Tunisia’s head prosecutor, citing “exceptional” circumstances; this was in response to protests and amidst a financial crisis that