Month: February 2022

And Just Like That… Finale SPOILER: SATC reboot looks set for a second series – Daily Mail
3Feb By No Comments
Lifestyle & Arts

And Just Like That… Finale SPOILER: SATC reboot looks set for a second series – Daily Mail

Sex And The City spin-off And Just Like That... aired its final episode on Thursday - leaving very open-ends and the prospect of new stories to tease the possibility of a second series.  While there has been no official confirmation over a return, the stories of Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York Goldenblatt and Miranda Hobbes' lives are left with many more tales to tell - with Carrie finally moving on from her late husband, Charlotte continuing to tackle motherhood and Miranda moving to LA.  With the final episode focusing heavily on Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie's attempts to move on from Big, who died in the first episode, she finally builds up the courage to spread his ashes in Paris before we explosively see her messaging Kim Cattrall's character Samantha Jones confirming a me...
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The great gaslighting: how Covid longhaulers are still fighting for recognition – The Guardian
3Feb By No Comments
Health & Fitness

The great gaslighting: how Covid longhaulers are still fighting for recognition – The Guardian

Before the coronavirus pandemic swept through New York City like a foaming white storm surge in the spring of 2020 and irrevocably displaced the trajectory of her life, Hannah Davis was an expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning. She gave talks on her projects, which included working with a computer program that generated music from literature, at Ted conferences, technology expos, even the Library of Congress. Toward the end of March 2020, as the first wave was gathering speed and the number of new cases in the US was inching upward toward 20,000 a day, Davis was living in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn – an area that would become one of the hardest-hit communities in the borough. She was stocking up on supplies one final time at a local grocery store befo...
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Its not just you — we are all more forgetful during the pandemic, experts say. Heres how to fix it – CNN
3Feb By No Comments
Health & Fitness

Its not just you — we are all more forgetful during the pandemic, experts say. Heres how to fix it – CNN

It's not laziness or losing your sharpness -- being in a global pandemic for the last two years is actually making it harder for our brains to make and recall memories, said Amir-Homayoun Javadi, a senior lecturer in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. "We tend to habituate and get used to situations," said Javadi, who is also the chief executive officer of Active-Class, a learning management system. "The situation for the past two years has pushed us to not do much and not to plan." And getting too used to life in this time can mean cognitive damage, memory disruption and trouble maintaining attention, he added. Contrary to how some people might imagine it, capturing a memory isn't like taking a picture of a moment. It can o...
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