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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Lockdown drills, practiced to help prepare children for shooting incidents at school, make those who have been exposed to violence feel safer, a new study of thousands of students in the US indicates. The finding, reported in a paper published in the Journal of School Violence, contradicts claims that the drills…

Olivier Assayas’s new film is a flimsy but elegant autofictional sketch about his own experiences during the Covid lockdown, bubbling up with family members in his childhood home in la France profonde. It’s a movie which reminds us that for all the anxieties, this period of enforced inactivity was for grownups of a certain age and financial security not entirely unpleasant – a reminder of the endless, aimless summer days of childhood, an Edenic existence outside time which workaholic media professionals thought never to…

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Gabriela Cowperthwaite is the first to admit her new film, I.S.S., is out of step with her career to date.The director of Blackfish (a documentary about the cruel treatment of orcas in captivity, Children of the Underground (about a covert network built to smuggle families away from abusive partners) and Our Friend (a true story of friendship in the face of terminal cancer), Cowperthwaite might be expected to focus on tales inspired by real events. Instead, an unrealized love for thrillers, horror and blockbusters took…

by Tilo Arnhold, Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e. V. The impacts of reduced pollution on snow brightening in the Himalayas and reduced surface water runoff, as observed during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown period. Credit: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2023). DOI: 10.5194/acp-23-10439-2023 Reducing air pollution to levels similar to those during the coronavirus pandemic…

by Eva Murillo Sanz, Irene Rujas Pascual, Marta Casla Soler, Miguel Lázaro, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Social interactions in the first months of life are fundamental for babies to learn how to communicate and develop their language skills. Physical contact, touch, smiling and our first face-to-face "conversations" are the pillars on which we build…

Last Updated: November 08, 2023, 20:23 ISTOn Wednesday, the Consumer Affairs Ministry held a meeting with online travel aggregators to discuss issues prejudicial to consumer interest in the travel sector. (File photo: News18)An official release on Wednesday said that travel aggregators have been asked to disburse pending refunds affected due to Covid-19 lockdown till the end of the third week of NovemberThe government on Wednesday directed online travel portals to process pending refunds related to air ticket bookings…

On Sunday, October 29, Ahmed Azza was given permission to leave his neighborhood for the first time in three days. He passed the surveillance camera trained on his front door and the group of Israeli soldiers stationed on the hill above and walked eight minutes to the checkpoint at the end of his street. He placed his belongings on a table to be searched, made mandatory eye contact with the facial recognition camera, and crossed through the rotating metal barriers into Hebron. Ten hours later, he was given a one-hour…

At one point in 2020, 4.4 billion people – more than half of the world's population – were under lockdown restrictions to stem the spread of COVID-19. This was such a sudden and substantial event that it has become known as the anthropause.Many bustling cities fell silent, often with restaurants, shops and schools closing, and only essential services allowed to operate. It was around this time when people started to report animals appearing in unusual places.For example, cougars were seen prowling through the suburbs of…

Representation of the CAT model. Solid and dotted arrows indicate the path of correct and incorrect answers respectively. Grades are represented at the bottom of the figure, In the Y axis there is the number of questions and in the circles there is the level of the question. Credit: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282306 According to a study by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Eurecat technology…