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Masks can put cognitive performance in check

Posted on December 11, 2022 by Hippocratic Post

Masks can put cognitive performance in check: Wearing a face mask can temporarily disrupt decision-making in some situations according to University of Queensland research. Dr David Smerdon from UQ’s School of Economics analysed almost three million chess moves played by more than eight thousand people in 18 countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and […]

Life, death, COVID-19 and chess

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Daniel Sokol

Last August, in the lull between the first and second wave of the pandemic, I decided to travel to Hungary with my 7-year-old daughter. On the flight there, at 30,000 feet, the plane began to shake violently. As the “fasten seat belts” sign came on, the sky turned an ominous shade of grey. The plane […]