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IT’S HERE Some600 doses of CoronaVac vaccines arrive in Marinduque on Friday for the inoculation of front-line health-care workers. —PHOTO FROM THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF GOV. PRESBITERO VELASCO JR. LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Philippines — The provincial governments of Romblon and Marinduque and 10 towns in Pangasinan province will continue to require a negative swab test result for returning residents and visitors. Romblon Gov. Jose Riano, in an order dated March 4, required all persons entering the province to show negative results of their reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test taken from their points of origin and administered only by Department of Health (DOH)-accredited laboratories or the Philippine Red Cross. The travel authority and a medical certificate from the points of origin would no longer be required, based on a recent order from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF). But travelers must first secure a … [Read more...] about Romblon, Marinduque, 10 Pangasinan towns still require swab test

Thailand’s PM Prayut is set to ride Bangkok’s first driverless Skytrain as he will preside over the opening ceremony of the Green Line extension and the Gold Line monorail on Wednesday, December 16. The Skytrain extension will travel from Mo Chit station through Saphan Mai station and ends at Khu Kot. The Gold Line monorail, which features the driverless train, links to the Green Line at Krung Thon Buri station. PM Prayut will ride from Thon Buri to Khlong San District Office station along with members of his cabinet and the local media. The new extension and line will link people’s commutes seamlessly between 3 provinces – Pathum Thani, Bangkok and Samut Prakarn. The Green Line extension adds 7 more stations – Phahon Yothin 59, Sai Yud, Saphan Mai, Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital, Royal Thai Air Force Museum, Yaek Kor Por Aor, and Khu Khot (near Don Mueang International Airport). The extension makes the Green Line 68 kilometres long with 59 stops, and can hold up to 1.5 million … [Read more...] about PM Prayut set to ride Bangkok’s first driverless skytrain

Source: Syda Productions/Shutterstock I hate to break the news to you, but life is short. And as you get older, the years do seem to go by more quickly. Given this fact of life, there really is not a lot of time to be hanging out with people who are just no fun! While nearly everyone would likely agree with this sentiment, from a behavioral scientific perspective, you just have to ask: What exactly does it mean to be “fun” or “no fun"!? The “Fun” Personality and the Big Five Traits Personality psychologists, such as Nettle and Clegg (2008), often frame the essence of our personality structure as mapping onto five superordinate traits—the Big Five personality trait dimensions. Decades of quantitative research on human personality functioning has, in fact, shown that pretty much all personality-related attributes map onto one of the Big Five personality trait dimensions, which are as follows: Extraversion : The tendency to be outgoing and high in social … [Read more...] about This Is What Makes a Person Fun

Source: 22612 / Pixabay Extraverts, those who are outgoing and generally seek out a relatively high level of social connections and attention , may be more likely to contract corona than are introverts. Think about that for a moment ... Last year, I wrote a piece that summarized the population distribution of introverts and extraverts in terms of what evolutionary behavioral scientists often call balancing selection . The idea here is designed to address the question of why, across pretty much all human populations that have been studied on the topic (see Costa & McCrae, 1985), human populations tend to have an even mix of introverts and extraverts. As introversion / extraversion has regularly shown as having a substantial heritable (genetic) component (see Nettle, 2008), this finding, of relatively even ratios of introverts to extraverts, suggests, from an evolutionary perspective, that the long-term genetic benefits of each strategy roughly equals the long-term … [Read more...] about Extraversion Kills

Wyoming Republican Senator John Barrasso reiterated claims that undocumented people living in the United States will receive direct payments through the latest coronavirus relief package on Sunday, echoing a similar suggestion from Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz over the weekend. The Senate passed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Saturday in a 50-49 vote along party lines. The bill will return to the U.S. House, where it initially passed one week earlier, for a second vote on Tuesday that is expected to see representatives approve the proposed legislation with amendments from the Senate. President Joe Biden could then sign the bill into law before the end of the upcoming week. In addition to extending increased unemployment benefits and distributing aid to state governments, the bill aims to dispense another round of economic stimulus payments to eligible Americans. Those who qualify can receive up to $1,400 per individual. Barrasso, like all of his Republican … [Read more...] about John Barrasso Repeats Ted Cruz Claim Stimulus Checks Will Go to Illegal Immigrants