Post No.: 0752 Furrywisepuppy says: A child’s sleep requirement changes significantly with age. The amount decreases gradually from infancy onwards, but increases slightly again during puberty, then decreases after that into adulthood. Newborns need about 14-18 hours/day. … Read More
Post No.: 0751 Furrywisepuppy says: Some obese but young people can be regarded as ‘metabolically healthy’ depending on the selected definition for this term. But this would only be a temporary state because if they don’t lose any … Read More
Post No.: 0750 Fluffystealthkitten says: Like with all animals – behaviour is communication. Thus if a student is constantly absent, complaining about something, has her/his head on the desk or is disruptive, for instance, then it’s sending a … Read More
Post No.: 0749 Furrywisepuppy says: Although non-private social media channels are open to anyone who wishes to follow them (apart from due to selected government censorships or state-wide firewalls in certain countries), it doesn’t mean people online are … Read More
Post No.: 0748 Furrywisepuppy says: Shame can arise as a result of something that one has done to oneself, whereas humiliation can arise as a result of something that someone else has done to oneself. And bullies are … Read More
Post No.: 0747 Furrywisepuppy says: As a broad generation regarding romantic relationships – lust evolved for having the drive to want sex, which has the primary purpose of reproducing offspring, because humans reproduce sexually; and romantic love evolved … Read More
Post No.: 0746 Fluffystealthkitten says: Some common but unreliable heuristics that customers trust in include assuming that ‘a higher price always means a higher quality or better product’, ‘a discount always makes something good value’ or ‘multi-buys always … Read More
Post No.: 0745 Furrywisepuppy says: Death doesn’t round life off with a satisfying finish like the ending of a movie or novel – it curtails, rather than completes, life. That’s unless we take charge of the narrative of … Read More
Post No.: 0744 Furrywisepuppy says: International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is implemented and enforced primarily by States/countries themselves. Other mechanisms are also provided via IHL treaties or international organisations – chiefly the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) … Read More
Post No.: 0743 Fluffystealthkitten says: We’re biased to interpret our own actions as more well-intended and moral than the equivalent actions of others. It’s all fictional but, when we play videogames, we almost invariably ostensibly play the … Read More
Post No.: 0742 Furrywisepuppy says: ‘Regression to the mean’ isn’t about how your significant other’s behaviour reverts back to cruelty once your birthday is over. It’s about how, if you’ve just had an extreme result, the next result … Read More
Post No.: 0741 Furrywisepuppy says: If we’re unwavering zealots then can we ever believe that our worldviews are wrong? Even past facts can be reinterpreted in favour of our positions… If a political party wins an election … Read More
Post No.: 0740 Fluffystealthkitten says: Diplomacy can be regarded as any kind of interaction between people with the aim of building or maintaining friendly and mediated or negotiated relations between them, whereby those people are representatives of their … Read More
Post No.: 0739 Furrywisepuppy says: ‘Morning larks’ find it most natural to get up and sleep early, whereas ‘night owls’ find it most natural to get up and sleep late. One’s ‘chronotype’ can be at either end of … Read More
Post No.: 0738 Fluffystealthkitten says: Marketing companies nowadays routinely employ popular influencers to try to get messages or videos trending on social media like on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok or whichever platforms are most currently fashionable and relevant for … Read More
Post No.: 0737 Furrywisepuppy says: Illegitimate historical revisionism (or negationism) and denying acts of atrocity that one’s side had committed is a function of cognitive dissonance, whereby most people believe that they and their own side/ingroup (e.g. forebears) … Read More
