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image captionMr Bassett said: I now do three reviews a week and update Twitter and Instagram with reviews everyday
A Waterstones employee turned professional book reviewer says the pandemic has helped him to find his purpose .
Daniel Bassett, 34, was furloughed from the chain in March 2020 and again during the latest lockdown.
He initially struggled with his mental health and so decided to focus on his dream of sharing his thoughts about his favourite books on social media.
He said: In the face of adversity, books have kept me going.
People have rediscovered the pleasure of reading in lockdown, publisher Bloomsbury has said, after reporting its best half-year profits since 2008.
Researchers measure different types of curiosity studying ‘hunters and busybodies’
Curiosity has been found to play a role in our learning and emotional well-being, but due to the open-ended nature of how curiosity is actually practiced, measuring it is challenging. Psychological studies have attempted to gauge participants’ curiosity through their engagement in specific activities, however, such methods focus on quantifying a person’s curiosity rather than understanding the different ways it can be expressed. Curiosity styles as knowledge networks where each node is a Wikipedia page and the paths between nodes represent the similarity between pages. “The hunter” style is characterized by high clustering and low overall path length, while “the busybody” style is characterized by low clustering and high overall path length. (Image: Melissa Pappas)
Hay muchos tipos de curiosidad y este estudio te dice cuál es la tuya hipertextual.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hipertextual.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Curiosity affects everything from our relationships to our education, but it s not easy to pin down and put under a microscope to study. With the help of Wikipedia though, researchers have now done just, exploring two main types of curiosity.