Amidst COVID-19, "Among Us" has provided a platform to connect with others

"Among Us" is for people to connect with one another - in big and small ways.

At its core, the online party game is quite simple. There are 10 people aboard a spaceship, but two of them are imposters. The eight crewmates have to complete tasks to fill up a taskbar while the imposters are trying to kill crewmates and sabotage parts of the ship. It’s essentially the classic in-person party game Mafia, taken online and into space.

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Lying can represent a positive growth in children’s cognitive development

We’ve all been subject to a three-year-old who believes that they can get away with sneaking a cookie, even when their hands and mouth are littered with crumbs. “I didn’t take the cookie,” they swear. “I was in my room the entire time!” Parents are typically angry and disappointed in their young children, reprimanding them and promising harsher punishment the next time they would dare to lie. However, the majority of kids continue to do so.

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The effects of Zoom burnout on students’ mental health 

With classes functioning completely online since the start of the school year, many students at Catlin Gabel School (CGS) are already experiencing Zoom fatigue or Zoom burnout, that feeling that students can’t possibly continue going about school this way. The symptoms include lack of motivation, headaches, extreme drowsiness, depression, and anxiety or higher levels of stress. All of these symptoms can have a negative on students' overall mental health.

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Viral debate moments and their political significance

The first presidential and vice presidential debates are long gone, and they left little impact on the polls and potentially even less of an impact on the election. FiveThirtyEight shows that the polls changed by less than half a percentage point in the days following the debates. In fact, the only impact that these debates may have had on voters was snappy quotations and humorous moments that stuck on the internet and spread across memes, t-shirts, stickers, and more.

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