Awareness of the outside world. The Guardian: Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors. Amy Hawkins, Senior China correspondent, Wed 24 Jan 2024.
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A week ago, my world was teens and ice and frozen ground.
Last week, my world was 60oF and rain and mud.
Recently, I was thinking about full moons and the theory that people do weird sh*t on the nights of the full moon. What is one thing you can absolutely do during a full moon that you can NOT do during a new moon? See where you are going. Therefore, people give the impression of getting up to shenanigans during a full moon because that is when we can be out & about. It’s not the moon; it’s the light.
Electric lights have put us out of touch with day/night cycles. Oh, we know they are there. They just don’t slow us down any more. Dark? Flip on a light. Cold? Turn up the heat.
(I realize this implies modern conveniences and steady access to power, yada yada yada. Stick with me. I’m making a rhetorical point here.)
I am as out of touch with the natural world as any person in the 21st century, perhaps more so, having grown up as a city kid.
However, I promise you, as a horse owner, I am very in touch with what is coming out of the sky, and how it affects the footing.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Does that explain the increase in ER traffic? Maybe.
Louise
In that situation, I would suspect a degree of confirmation bias. Humans are good at seeing what we want to see.