The Yale happiness class, formally known as Psyc 157: Psychology and the Good Life, is one of the most popular classes to be offered in the university’s 320-year history. The class was only ever taught in-person once, during the spring 2018 semester, as a 1,200-person lecture course in the largest […]
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“ ‘Oh my God, am I going to make it to 60?’ ” Smith, 59, recalled asking herself as she lay in bed, gasping for air. She also feared she had infected her husband, who had just been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. From its beginning, the coronavirus has been a […]
Dr. Ee Tay helped her neighbors get vaccinated in January, and now she helps people all over NYC. With the help of the medical community and Facebook group members, she’s scheduled 300 appointments. Her team offers help to the elderly, undocumented immigrants, and those with language barriers. See more stories […]
Dr. Ee Tay. Dr. Ee Tay Dr. Ee Tay helped her neighbors get vaccinated in January, and now she helps people all over NYC. With the help of the medical community and Facebook group members, she’s scheduled 300 appointments. Her team offers help to the elderly, undocumented immigrants, and those […]
It’s been almost a year since Mae Smith got COVID-19, and she still experiences symptoms including crushing fatigue and a brain fog that makes it hard to think. Smith was a policy director for a New York City social service agency when she first contracted COVID-19, and continued working despite […]
BOISE, Idaho — The deadline for Idahoans to get the Star Card, Idaho’s REAL ID, is now seven months away. Starting October 1, people will need a Star Card. U.S. passport, military ID or another form of REAL ID to board a commercial flight or enter a federal facility. The […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination drive beyond health care and front-line workers, offering the shots to older people and those with medical conditions that put them at risk. Among the first to be inoculated on Monday was Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Those now eligible to […]
IWCriticsPick “Persona 5 Strikers” is an epic, addictive, 30-hour JRPG about why people are such enormous assholes on the internet. To anyone familiar with Atlus’ long-running “Persona” series, that premise won’t come as much of a surprise. In a genre associated with vast fantasy worlds and the motley crews of […]
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Stop Interruptions getty Having time to work without interruptions is one of the greatest gifts any of us can get these days. Not only do interruptions reduce our productivity, but interruptions also make us miserable. Based on the tens of thousands who’ve taken the online quiz How Do Your Time […]
Online travel agent Lastminute.com has been threatened with court action by the competition watchdog for failing to pay out refunds to thousands of customers. The company vowed to make £7million of payments by the end of January to 9,000 people who had holidays cancelled due to the pandemic under a […]
(CNN) — While most European Union nations have kept their borders sealed against non-European visitors during the pandemic, Croatia has been welcoming arrivals from the United States and many other countries. Summer saw it allow almost anyone to vacation on its beautiful Adriatic coastline and enjoy its stunning islands and […]
The Russian people have embarked on one of the largest battles against kleptocracy, or the rule of thieves. They want their government to stop plundering their wealth and using it to hold onto power by any means. They want the same things all people want, a government that listens to […]
State must rethink vax plan I have read with great interest the opinion piece in The Jersey Journal (“Vaccine rollout a massive failure for seniors”; Jan. 29) and agree with everything written in the article. It was spot on, as were the letters by senior citizens relating the problems in securing […]
When you haven’t seen your family, hung out with friends or gone on vacation in the name of pandemic safety, watching other people do the things you so desperately miss can be maddening. You might say it makes you “pangry,” a made-up word for pandemic angry that describes what many […]
Officials across Southern California are opening more sites to administer coronavirus vaccine. But there are concerns that the shortage in vaccine doses could worsen before it gets better. Authorities have said the biggest problem right now is getting enough vaccine to meet demand. At current rates, it could be June […]
A recent patent granted to Microsoft has many “Black Mirror” fans thinking of “Be Right Back,” the first episode of the show’s second season. In that “Black Mirror” installment, Hayley Atwell plays a young woman whose boyfriend, Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson), is killed in a car accident. The woman decides […]
The Forum in Inglewood is one of five mass vaccination sites opening Tuesday in the county. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles County opened five large-scale coronavirus vaccination sites Tuesday morning, with plans to inoculate 20,000 people daily. The sites are at the Forum in Inglewood, Six Flags […]
“As a Black woman and a descendant of slaves, this is really big moment,” she said. “And those people who stormed the Capitol, they robbed everybody of being a part of it.” Twelve years ago, the National Mall was packed with millions of people who came to witness the inauguration […]
People 65 and over wait in line at the Department of Health Sarasota COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Sarasota, Fla. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is speaking out after reports surfaced of outsiders traveling to the state to get vaccinated against COVID-19. “We’re a transient state,” DeSantis said Monday during […]
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On July 1, a few days after a woman in India registered for an account on the careers site Naukri.com and uploaded a resume, a recruiter called her: One of the country’s leading real-estate companies was hiring for a senior position, and more details would follow soon. The woman had […]
VIRGINIA, MN — Over the years, the number of people moving to northeastern Minnesota has dropped. Shawn Herhusky, workforce strategy consultant for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, said it can be difficult for employers on the Iron Range to find the right people to hire. “We know […]
Alvaro Silberstein of Chile has lived most of his life in a wheelchair — and is still an avid outdoor adventurer. He co-founded the accessible tourism company, Wheel the World, which recently won a Lonely Planet 2020 “Best in Travel” award in the category of inclusivity. Silberstein has experienced National Parks […]