They’re seeing links between beliefs in COVID-19 falsehoods and the reliance on social media as a source of news and information.Īnd they’re concluding COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist by providing a false sense of empowerment. I guess I chose to believe the facts.”Īs the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines. “I don’t know why I didn’t believe all of it myself. That’s not a hoax,” Roberts said, speaking of the conspiracy theories embraced by family and friends. “Five hundred thousand people have died in this country. So when the 29-year-old Tennessee man got his COVID-19 shot at his local Walmart last month, it felt like an achievement. The vaccine, they said, was the real threat. His parents taught him inoculations were dangerous, and when the coronavirus arrived, they called it a hoax. (AP) - Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6.
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It's the antithesis of swaying hammocks, geared almost entirely to restless souls who get fidgety after five minutes on a sun-lounger. People may come to the Peak District to get away from it all, but very few come to chill out. The sound of the trickling river should be harnessed for relaxation tapes, the rounded hills cartoonised for the setting of a TV programme designed to pacify three-year-olds. There's an unthreatening Englishness about Dovedale. The river Dove itself bubbles along with dainty gaiety and grey-haired ramblers revert to childish skipping across the stepping stones. The hills bulging up around the valley are tuftily grassed and mothering, any harsh edges cuddled out by a soppy higher force. The genial harmlessness of his lollop is befitting the surroundings. He takes a look behind him, realises the leash is off and enthusiastically bounds into the river with a total absence of grace and decorum. The tubby black Labrador gamely struts along, his furiously wagging tail shaking his overfed body. “I could tell you some raucous stories, but I won’t.”ĭunn was born in Garden City, Kan., in 1945. “She was such a private person,” says former WW reporter Susan Stanley, who remained a close friend. To her friends and fans, her past was a mystery, which she fiercely guarded. I told you you’d like it.’”īy the time Geek Love made her a cult figure, Dunn was 43 years old. “She was, I’m sure, punching me in the shoulder saying, ‘See, I told you. “This pure conveyance of a really brilliant take on the world, on emotion, on human frailty, on striving and failure, and she really made it make sense and made it beautiful. “It was in real time, what her writing was like,” Orlean says now. Instead, Dunn talked Orlean through each round, explaining the fighters’ jabs and footwork until the other writer grew fascinated, then entranced. “She finally convinced me to go,” Orlean says, “and I went imagining I would have my hands over my eyes most of the time and my fingers in my ears.” Susan Orlean, The New Yorker writer and author of The Orchid Thief, who worked alongside Dunn at WW in the early 1980s, recalls Dunn wrangling the newsroom into attending boxing matches. Those she left behind have been wistfully eager to describe her mettle, generosity and vitality-her ability to make life an adventure and take others along for the trip. Dunn’s death May 11 at age 70 from lung cancer robbed Portland of one of its finest writers and most inimitable characters. Even if it means lying to the people she loves. Even if it means stealing her best friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of impossibly handsome model Nick. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.īut she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her. “My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.” Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. But anyone who knew March in her teenage years must suspect that her real reason for returning with sullen teenage daughter in tow is for a reunion with Hollis, the bad boy March was once inseparable from. Dale did help March's father raise her after the girl's mother died, and she remained a loyal friend until her death. It might seem that March Murray has purely sentimental reasons for leaving her apparently happy life in California (nice house, professor husband) to attend her former housekeeper's funeral in Jenkintown, Mass., the bleak, suffocatingly tiny town where she grew up. From the author of Practical Magic (1995), among others, a kind of inside-out Bridges of Madison County in which the middle- aged mother of a teenager falls in love with a bad man, leaves her husband for him, and winds up abused and isolated. Odell gives the example of Deep Listening which is an intense form of actively listening to your thoughts and everything around you. Taking breaks from our face paced lives is just as important as taking action. “Refusing productivity and stopping to listen” (Odell 22) becomes a bold statement when one is expected to act in a certain way or when no amount of words or action could be meaningful enough in a situation. Odell is also getting at the fact that doing nothing can be a powerful act that truly does something and creates change. Sometimes, it is the most empty points of nothingness in our lives that change our lives for the better and make us appreciate everything from a new perspective because we finally had the time to stop and reflect on exactly what was going on. Doing nothing creates space to contemplate and be mindful of the self internally and in relation to the world around us, which helps us make important contributions to our surroundings instead of simply filling space with empty words and actions. One cannot create meaningful thought and speech without embracing the act of doing nothing from time to time. In chapter one of Jenny Odell’s, How To Do Nothing, she argues “The Case for Nothing” by highlighting the benefits of nothingness and silence. With my limited Who knowledge, I was able to follow along and be entertained. Great idea, yeah? So far it has been working great in addition to being a great idea, which is the important part. So for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary each Doctor will be getting a comic book issue in a series called Prisoners of Time. I admit, I expected a half-assed cash-in, but nearly immediately the quality of the art and the writing dissolved that. Like this publisher's Star Trek comics, Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time is so much more than I expected. I find that I am able to take so much more whimsy, cleverness, and just plain old adventuring if it's drawn sequentially as opposed to acted out on a screen, for no good reason except personal tastes. it would have been over 100 if I had been able to stay awake. I, unfortunately, never quite got into that fandom, but damn, have my friends tried! I think I have seen at least 50 hours of Doctor Who, but ah. So basically all my friends are whovians, and my boyfriend and best friend are "classic" whovians at that. 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As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man's remains-his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of an ancient pagan sacrifice known as “triple death.” But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar wound pattern, is found-this one sporting a wristwatch. ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May.Ī magnificent tale of death and destiny, past and present, in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth, and mystery: “Lake of Sorrows has a heft and richness uncommon in contemporary suspense novels” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Īmerican pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows. We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as "gifts"-US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. 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On the other hand, he denounces media, intellectual and political elites, as well as US intervention in Ukraine, platforming those who identify as the “anti-war left”, such as Jimmy Dore. So, is Tucker Carlson hard to classify? On the one hand, he spreads tropes central to neo-Nazi propaganda, such as “white replacement” theory, suggesting that leftist elites seek to replace “legacy Americans” by foreign non-white immigrants. Insofar as Carlson has since that point gone to war, it has rather been against these supposed internal enemies. Carlson has been resolutely against US support for Ukraine. In short, Carlson urged, the real enemies of America are internal – racial minorities, doctors and politicians, professors and educators, and large corporations who shift jobs to other countries. |