When fiction’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, needed to solve a crime, he turned to his sharp observational skills and deep understanding of human nature. He used this combination more than once when facing off against his arch-nemesis, Dr James Moriarty, a villain adept at exploiting human weaknesses for his gain. This classic battle mirrors today’s ongoing fight against cybercrime. Like Moriarty, cybercriminals use cunning strategies to exploit their victims’ psychological vulnerabilities. They send deceptive emails or messages that appear to be from trusted sources such as banks, employers, or friends. These messages often contain urgent requests or alarming information…
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While much has changed over the past 50 years, evening television news remains a prominent source of information for Americans. I am a scholar of psychology and study how people learn information from the world around them. I was struck by how the recent televised segments of college campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza brought to mind images from other student movements in the United States – particularly the widespread campus protests in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1969, 47% of Americans preferred to get their news from television, as opposed to newspapers, magazines and radio. In…
Former tánaiste Simon Coveney, who has confirmed he will not run for the Dáil again, acknowledged that at one time in his political career he had been “passionate” about becoming taoiseach.“I have come to the view some time ago that it’s time for me to step out of politics at the next election, after the extraordinary privilege of serving this constituency for 26 years,” he wrote to Fine Gael members in his constituency of Cork South Central on Wednesday morning.Speaking on the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork radio station RedFM, Mr Coveney said: “At one point in my career, I…
Southern Care Connection LLC paid straight-time wages for hours over 40 in a workweekEmployer name: Southern Care Connection LLC, operating as #1 in HomecareInvestigation site: 1539 Jackson Ave., Suite 120 New Orleans, LA 70130 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found Southern Care Connection LLC, operating as #1 in Homecare, paid 46 non-exempt employees straight time for overtime for hours over 40…
A researcher working alone – apart from the world and the rest of the wider scientific community – is a classic yet misguided image. Research is, in reality, built on continuous exchange within the scientific community: First you understand the work of others, and then you share your findings. Reading and writing articles published in academic journals and presented at conferences is a central part of being a researcher. When researchers write a scholarly article, they must cite the work of peers to provide context, detail sources of inspiration and explain differences in approaches and results. A positive citation by…
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has underlined the UK’s cast iron commitment to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence to respond to growing threats, ahead of a NATO summit where he will say a step up in defence spending can safeguard the future of the Alliance. At the summit in Washington D.C., the PM will emphasise his determination to face down global threats to Britain and its western allies. He will praise NATO members’ efforts to increase defence spending and say that further increases in spending will help the alliance tackle the nature of today’s threats. The Prime Minister…
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon. So it’s a particular pleasure to be here with the latest star recruit of the Washington Nationals baseball team, Jens Stoltenberg, also known as the Secretary General of NATO. It was wonderful being with Jens yesterday at Nationals Park, watching him throw out the first pitch, but it’s been even more wonderful to be side by side with the Secretary General for the last three and a half years in my case, watching his leadership of our Alliance. We have NATO coming together for its 75th anniversary here in Washington – of course, celebrating those 75…
While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to seek out sun, sand and the sea, many might not realize how dangerous digging holes in the sand can be. In February 2024, a 7-year-old girl died after an approximately 5-foot (1.5-meter) hole she and her brother dug in the sand collapsed in on her, burying her alive. As a coastal science researcher who’s been studying beaches for many years, I was called in to help investigate the girl’s death. While many people nearby stepped in to try to free the girl after the sand hole collapsed, local firefighters couldn’t…
Any night now, a “new star” or nova will appear in the night sky. While it won’t set the sky ablaze, it’s a special opportunity to see a rare event that’s usually difficult to predict in advance. The star in question is T Coronae Borealis (T CrB, pronounced “T Cor Bor”). It lies in the constellation of the northern crown, prominent in the Northern Hemisphere but also visible in the northern sky from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand over the next few months. Most of the time T CrB, which is 3,000 light years away, is much too faint to…
Physical activity is important for children; it supports improved health, development and sleep. However, children in the early years (from birth to age five) with disabilities are consistently underrepresented in national monitoring, and are subsequently excluded from intervention efforts promoting physical activity. The ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth (the most comprehensive assessment of child and youth physical activity in Canada) was released in May, and again reported a noticeable lack of available data for children with disabilities. As researchers in the Child Health and Physical Activity Lab in the School of Occupational Therapy at Western…