Last Friday of each month, I organized some of the observations and ideas shared on social networks. I call it Friday finds.
Note: regular readers may have noticed that my blog articles are rather rare at the moment. I take a break in blogs throughout the summer and I intend to be back this fall. There are more than 3,500 older positions still available to travel here.
“Everyone is tired because individually we are trying to do everything that can only be achieved by community life.” via @gemelliz
“The modern curator is engaged in one of the oldest exercises of man in moral philosophy; That is to say the search for a moral justification greater than selfishness. ” –John Kenneth Galbraith (2002)
Long long puzzle pieces set up – the image is disturbing
Despite overwhelming evidence of the large-scale risks of COVVI-19, many messages suggest that this is no longer a threat to the public. Although there is no empirical evidence to support this, this disinformation has permeated the public story.
The data, however, tells another story.
COVID-19 infections continue to exceed flu and more hospitalization and death than flu. COVID-19 also leads to more serious long-term health problems. Trivialifying Covid-19 as a cold without consequences or assimilating it to the flu does not correspond to reality.
The 1918 flu pandemic and the rise of Italian fascism
Despite the renewed interest in the 1918 influenza pandemic as a reference framework to anticipate the potential effects of COVID-19, evidence of its impact comes far from economic and social studies. Here we have extended this work by examining the political results, and we suggest a at first glance Case for its contribution to the rise of populism: Italian fascism. Our analysis shows a significant correlation between the deaths of flu and the share of votes for the fascist party in 1924, even after taking into account other determinants of the rise of fascism. Looking at Mussolini's Journal Il Popolo d'Italia, we also found that the rhetoric of some of today's populist politicians concerning the cocovio-19 pandemic imitated that of previous fascist leaders.
Lesson learned from the COVVI-19 pandemic: toddlers learn earlier to read emotions with facial masks
In conclusion, our results demonstrate that toddlers have an increased ability to interpret the emotions of masked facial expressions after a year of exposure to face masks. This observation provides a positive response to our initial survey as to whether the modified availability of facial visual characteristics during the Pandemic COVVI-19 could hamper or delay the development of skills to recognize emotions in early childhood. Our results indicate that this is not the case; Conversely, such a development seems to undergo an acceleration. The resilient and adaptable nature of the brain, even in difficult conditions, probably promotes adaptation to improve facial treatment skills in young children, allowing them to successfully engage in social interactions.
