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The problems with resilience thinking
Lydia Lewis, BERA Blog, 2021/05/07

There has been a lot of talk about resilience recently. It is depicted as a good thing and something that should be developed and promoted. But, writes Lydia Lewis, it can also assign responsibility to the wrong person. "Ideas about encouraging children to be resilient can work insidiously to deflect blame for any problems a child is experiencing, instead positioning them as problematic and needing to adapt."

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A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
Natalie Wolchover, Samuel Velasco, Lucy Reading-Ikkanda, Quanta, 2021/05/07

Here's another recent item from Quanta. As interesting as the subject is (and yes, the topic of subatomic particles is quite interesting) what led me to list it here in OLDaily is the interactive image near the end of the article giving us a three-dimensional model of the new model you an manipulate and examine. And it makes me ask: why are there no right-handed neutrinos? I don't know, but the diagram makes it an obvious question to ask.

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Indigenous women's Instagram stories on MMIWG awareness vanish on Red Dress Day
Lenard Monkman, CBC News, 2021/05/07

Facebook may tell us that it's not able to precisely filter hateful content, but it seems able to target very specific types of content as demonstrated today as it accidentally (?) banned content related to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls  (MMIWG) in Canada. There were also reports that similar bans removed content related to maternal mental health and the crisis in India.

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