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The pandemic created extensive and long-lasting disruptions to people’s lives, studies and work. Along with these disruptions, some have mentioned what has been referred to as pandemic brain fog, a phenomenon that affects memory and basic task functioning.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Molly MacMillan at Memorial University writes about how memory functions, and why the pandemic might have made people’s memories hazy. MacMillan suggests that “the memories that we formed were all associated with a relatively limited set of environmental cues,” leading to memory glitches during the pandemic.
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People reported memory loss during the pandemic.
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Molly MacMillan, Memorial University of Newfoundland
A side-effect of pandemic response measures has been the impact on our mental health. But memory problems are a natural response to the environments created by the lockdowns.
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Team Canada’s Paul Henderson shoots on Team U.S.S.R.‘s Vladislav Tretiak while Gannady Tsygankov defends during the 1972 Summit tournament in Toronto on Sept. 4, 1972.
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Taylor McKee, Brock University
Fifty years later, the Summit Series still occupies a heightened role in the Canadian cultural consciousness.
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There are numerous ways for antibiotic-resistant microbes to enter the human body.
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Fathima Afsal, McGill University; Dominic Frigon, McGill University
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat. Here’s how resistant genes sneak into human guts via wastewater, food and other routes.
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From left, Silvio Berlusconi, Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini address a rally in Rome in 2019. Meloni’s Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party, with neo-fascist roots, has been rising rapidly in popularity ahead of Italy’s Sept. 25 parliamentary elections.
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Julian Campisi, University of Toronto
Italians will vote soon. A likely victory for the far-right Brothers of Italy could take the country down an uncharted path.
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Emily Blackwell, University of Bristol
La science propose quelques indices pour savoir si votre chat ressent pour vous plus que de l’amour intéressé.
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Ukraine Invasion
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Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service
A military strategist breaks down how a smaller Ukrainian army has successfully taken back swaths of land from the Russians in the country’s northeast.
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Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter
Moscow’s preoccupation with the war in Ukraine has opened up an opportunity for Azerbaijan to put military pressure on Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
A rapid shift in the balance of power between Moscow and Beijing is becoming apparent as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meets in Central Asia.
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COVID-19
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Zania Stamataki, University of Birmingham; Adrian Shields, University of Birmingham
This guidance replaces previous conditional recommendations for the use of these drugs and is based on emerging evidence that they’re not likely to work against omicron.
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Culture + Society
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Muhammad Dan Suleiman, Curtin University
West African governments need to be clearer about the similarities and differences of violent extremist groups.
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Katherine Davies, University of Sheffield
Sharing administrative tasks and reminiscing on family moments can bring siblings together during tough times.
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Politics
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Philip Williamson, Durham University
Queen Elizabeth’s funeral will maintain all the traditions of previous royal funerals but will have some new additions to ease the new sovereign in.
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