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Average perception scores of promotion candidates. Differences are significant at the 1% significance level. Credit: European Sociological Review (2022). DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcac055 Earlier research indicated that former burnout employees experience unfavorable treatment when applying to a new organization. However, how would employees with a history of burnout fare in the context of a promotion in their current organization?…

Images via Netflix/Marvel Studios We haven’t even officially met him yet, what with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania not hitting theaters until next month, but forward-thinking Marvel fans are already theorizing who could defeat Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror come Avengers: Secret Wars. What’s more, Wednesday might be one of Netflix’s biggest hits of the past 12 months, but maybe we shouldn’t expect one of its stars to make a swift return to the MCU multiverse. Could Wednesday‘s Percy Hynes White reprise…

Tonga Volcano Eruption 2022-01-15. Credit: Japan Meteorological Agency/NASA SPoRT. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY A team of researchers at the University of Oxford, working with a colleague from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, has created radiative transfer models to help estimate global temperature changes in the coming years due to the Tonga eruption last year. …

Austin Butler may not want to think that his chances of winning a best actor Oscar for playing Elvis Presley could be boosted by the sudden Jan. 12 death of the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. But that’s the hard reality of the Oscars race: Tragedy sometimes leads to awards. Heath Ledger and Peter Finch won posthumous acting Oscars in 2009 and 1977 for “The Dark Knight” and “Network,” respectively, though many would say they turned in iconic performances that deserved to be honored. More…

Image via Marvel As Marvel Studios moves into Phase Five of the Cinematic Universe of its superhero films, fans are naturally apt to wonder about the direction of the multi-billion dollar franchise. Now that Phase Three ended on the 2019 blockbuster Avenger’s Endgame’s conclusion of its popular characters’ story arcs; Robert Downey, Jr’s Tony Stark has died, Chris Evans’ Captain America passed his mantle on to the next generation of heroes, and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk has come to find peace with his tempestuous…

Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)New research casts doubt on certain claimed benefits of intermittent fasting, finding no link between a person’s timing of meals and their chances of long-term weight loss. The frequency and size of people’s meals, however, was linked to modest changes in weight.Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recruited adult patients from one of three major health care systems to use an app (“Daily 24”) where they would report their sleeping and eating habits for up…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The South African government has implemented numerous economic policies to boost employment since the democratic transition in 1994. But between 1995 and 2022 the growth in employment—from 9.5 million in 1995 to 15.8 million in 2022—wasn't enough to keep up with the more rapid increase of job seekers which more than doubled from 13.7 million to 27.7 million during the same period.…

What will a 100-mtr, or a 1000-mtr Asteroid strike on Earth do? What are the chances of a strike by these monster rocks? Find out Asteroids are astonishing space rocks, literally, in the sky that fly around in specific orbits and sometime come very close to Earth. Needless to say, their potential for destruction make all space agencies in the world, as well as amateur astronomers, keep a constant watch on the skies above for a rare sighting. Yes, the sightings by the huge number of telescopes around the Earth as…

Photo: Charles Krupa (AP)The Mega Millions multi-state lottery has hit an estimated jackpot of over $1.1 billion, making the upcoming drawing one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history.But huge prizes come with tiny odds. A player who buys a single ticket for the January 10th Mega Millions only has a 1 in 302,575,350 chance of winning the jackpot. You’re way more likely to get hit by lightning.But if you still want to play, there’s a few things you should know that can improve —or worsen—your chances.What is the…

We’re just a few weeks away from the release of Blumhouse’s M3GAN, a killer doll story about a life-like android who befriends the niece of a brilliant roboticist and becomes far too overprotective of her new companion. It’s essentially Annabelle meets The Boy with a more fresh and modern spin. Directed by Gerard Johnstone and starring Allison Williams as Gemma, M3GAN’s creator, the horror is helmed by Jason Blum and the Blumhouse team, all of whom are responsible for the likes of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The…