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A pandemic trend that should stay

by Jeffery M. Leving The pandemic has been hard on us, but one of the positives to come out of it has been the increased amount of quality time parents have spent with their children. This is especially true for fathers, who typically spend less time with their kids than mothers, and ...

What do COVID-fatigued people do to stay calm?

by Jennifer S. Bankston Lately, it seems like not sweating the small stuff is all anyone can handle. And sometimes not even that. I recently watched a man, frustrated by a long line at the pharmacy, ring the bell for service at least 10 times before knocking whatever was on the ...

Jan. 30 letters to the editor

Can’t judge resilience until after recovery The Dominion Post had an article on Jan. 26 titled “They’re resilient — more so than us.” Yes, children are resilient. If you look at the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of resilient is “able to become strong, healthy or ...

The latest bias to worry about

by Tyler Cowen For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the practice of giving disproportionate weight to the events of the ...