Referring to other memories when studying can help to place things in context and reduce potential interference of memories.

Harp, N., Langbehn, A. T., Larsen, J., Niedenthal, P., & Neta, M. (2022). Facial coverings differentially alter valence judgments of emotional expressions. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5a9fd

This is the critical observation - everything is interconnected. It is a nexus of problems that requires that we deal with all dimensions of the problem simultaneously.

Putin is the nexus of so much that is wrong with the world. He is like an octopus that has its arms in multiple crisis of the planet.

The political polarization of the US, the ascendancy of the puppet government of Trump and the blatant cognitive dissonance of the extreme right who are impervious to facts is reminiscent of the propaganda imposed upon the Russian people themselves for one reason - it was part of Putin's master plan: https://youtu.be/FxgBuhMBXSA The US population has been split by Putin's information warfare system, the same one he uses on the Russian population.

The fake news programmed by Russian propaganda about the Ukraine war has worked effectively to mislead the Russian populus: https://youtu.be/kELta9MLOzg The same pattern of psychological manipulation has also had the same impact in the belief system of the typical hardcore Trumpist.

Emails show Trump officials celebrate efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/09/cdc-covid-political-interference/

Rogers, Andrew H., Lorra Garey, and Michael J. Zvolensky. “COVID-19 Psychological Factors Associated with Pain Status, Pain Intensity, and Pain-Related Interference.” Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, February 10, 2021, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2021.1874504.

He is the first person in Australia to be charged by AFP with foreign interference under laws passed by the Federal Parliament in 2018.

Perhaps the best defense against active measures is a little bit of activism of our own

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Should be Fig. 16.5.4. As well as for the subsequent Fig. 16.5.4 (a), Fig. 16.5.4 (b) and Fig. 16.5.4 (c).

In the same vein, Fig. 16.21 should be replaced by Fig. 16.5.5, and also Fig. 16.5.5 (a), Fig. 16.5.5 (b) and Fig. 16.5.5 (c), as above.

The sentence should read: "Both the transmitted and reflected waves have amplitudes less than the amplitude of the incident wave".

Please confirm.

"Assertive of authority in a domineering way, especially with regard to trivial matters, annoying, pestering." (OED).