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Our ability to pay attention to tasks — a key component of our everyday lives — is heavily influenced by factors like motivation, arousal and alertness. Maintaining focus can be especially challenging when the task is boring or repetitive. “In many activities, it is difficult to maintain a high level of focus over time. Our research asks why this is the case,” said Matthew K. Robison, assistant professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Arlington. He and colleagues at the University of Oregon have published a new study on maintaining attention in the peer-reviewed journal Attention, Perception &…

Motorists are being urged to take care due to the risk of black ice forming on the roads from the snow, sleet and ice that has been forecast.  Black ice is a thin coat of highly transparent ice.  The reason black ice is transparent is because it is so thin it blends in with roads and pavements, making it nearly impossible to see.  Black ice is a thin coat of highly transparent ice. (Image: Getty Images) Black ice usually forms when there is a wet surface including roads and pavements and the temperature drops below freezing. Managing Director of Select Car Leasing, Graham Conway,…

Location : The M3 westbound between junctions J4 and J4A . Lane Closures : Lane one is closed. Reason : Broken down vehicle. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 00:45 and 01:00 on 29 November 2023. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 00:45 and 01:00 on 29 November 2023. Lanes Closed : There is one of four lanes closed. Source link

Image Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock Margot Robbie is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. The 33-year-old actress began her career starring in TV shows in her native Australia, but she became a worldwide sensation in 2013 when she starred in The Wolf of Wall Street. Since her breakout international role, Margot has been in a wide array of popular and critically acclaimed movies, including playing Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, Harley Quinn in the Suicide Squad films, and in 2023, as the titular character in Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie. Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley at the 33rd Annual Gotham Awards on November…

Fearless Fund’s Strivers Grant Program was already in danger before Edward Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights sued it in August, according to documents reviewed by TechCrunch. In June, just two months before the lawsuit was filed, the foundation arm of the fund held a company offsite in which it marked the Strivers Grant Program, sponsored by Mastercard, as being “at risk.” The briefing document noted that Mastercard cut funding to the program after the organization initially made a five-year pledge to give money to Black founders. According to the document, Mastercard was “no longer passionate about the original cause.”…

What’s more, of those participants who are in favour of some of the contribution and funds being used for charity, 60% reported that the proportion should be a half or more of the total currently spent2.  In a finding which reflects the changing expectations of UK employees during a cost-of-living crisis and time of global instability, in GlobalGiving UK’s opinion this research suggests that employees are happy to forgo some of this benefit to give to charitable causes.    Alex Ritchie, CEO at GlobalGiving UK, comments, “What this poll tells us is that employer charitable giving is important to many…

The case for electrification, which was ditched six years ago, has never gone away says transport expert Source link

A federal judge has accepted materials from Jump Crypto Holdings in discovery for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) case against Terraform Labs.In a Nov. 28 filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Jed Rakoff approved the confidential treatment of certain materials produced by Jump Crypto Holdings, the crypto arm of Jump Trading. The firm was reportedly under scrutiny from the SEC for its alleged involvement in the events leading to the depegging of TerraUSD (UST) and the downfall of Terra — one of the major events kicking off the crypto market…

Artemis II NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch of NASA, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen signed the Orion stage adapter for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Nov. 27. The hardware is the topmost portion of the SLS rocket that they will launch atop during Artemis II when the four astronauts inside NASA’s Orion spacecraft will venture around the Moon. From left, Artemis II astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman sign the SLS Orion stage adapter for the Artemis II mission…

From pigs in blankets and turkey to mince pies and Yorkshire puddings there are so many delicious foods to look forward to.  But how many of these Christmas delights are we able to pass on to our dogs? Monthly toxic ingestion claims peaked in December in 2022 according to Animal Friends Pet Insurance. (Image: Getty Images) The experts at Animal Friends Pet Insurance said they saw monthly toxic ingestion claims peak in December 2022, with Christmas Eve recording the most claims out of the whole year (followed closely by Christmas Day). Already the pet insurance experts have seen Google search volume for “human foods…