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  • research that shows how search engines can actually bias towards a political candidate in an election and tilt the election in favor of a particular party.

I was unfamiliar with Bayesian learning/Bayesian interference before reading this article. I looked it up and found a helpful tool here: https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/bayesian-inference/index.html. Much of the information I read to familiarize myself with the topic referred to it in the context of machine learning. I can see how the idea of "how one should update one’s beliefs upon observing data" can apply to student learning, especially for young kids. Kunin, D., Guo, J., Dae Devlin, T., & Ziang, D. (n.d.). Bayesian inference. Seeing Theory. https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/bayesian-inference/index.html

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

Harp, N., Dodd, M. D., & Neta, M. (2020). Emotional working memory load selectively increases negativity bias [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jnesc

Durrheim, D. N., Gostin, L. O., & Moodley, K. (2020). When does a major outbreak become a Public Health Emergency of International Concern? The Lancet Infectious Diseases, S1473309920304011. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30401-1

Gostin, L. O. (2020). COVID-19 Reveals Urgent Need to Strengthen the World Health Organization. JAMA Health Forum, 1(4), e200559–e200559. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2020.0559

Spadaro, A. (undefined/ed). COVID-19: TESTING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2020.27

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).