The Newest Cadbury Bunny is… a Therapy Dog Named Annie Rose!:
Lori R.
The votes are in, and America has chosen an adorable dog as the winner of the fourth-annual Cadbury Bunny Tryouts. After receiving thousands of votes from fans across the country, Annie Rose is putting her bunny ears back on and joining the Cadbury Hall of Fame. An English Doodle, Annie Rose is used to being in the spotlight. She loves bringing smiles to the faces of seniors so much so that not even a global pandemic can stop her. When COVID-19 restrictions meant no visitors to nursing homes, Annie Rose didn’t give up. Instead, she dressed up strutting her stuff outside the nursing home windows. Annie Rose will star in this year’s Cadbury Clucking Bunny commercial and will take home a $5,000 cash prize, along with plenty of bragging rights for when she visits local nursing homes in her home state of Ohio.
The Worse The Pandemic, The More Generously Americans Donated to Others – to Record Level:
Individuals in the USA showed greater financial generosity when under threat from COVID-19, according to new research. The researchers used the world’s largest tracker of financial charity from the years leading up to and then proceeding into the pandemic, while also conducting controlled experimental games. Both inquiries found that the pandemic made Americans more generous with their capital. The first dataset found that 78% of U.S. counties with a COVID-19 threat increased the total amount donated in March 2020 compared to March 2019. Even more encouraging, the charitable amounts increased the most when the degree of danger from the virus was highest: 32.9% under high threat vs 28.5% under medium threat compared to no threat. The second data set of 1,000 people came from a controlled experiment using the “dictator game” in which one player (the dictator) receives $10 and makes a unilateral decision on how to divide it between themselves and a stranger. However, contrary to previous results, dictators were almost 10% more generous with their $10 stake after COVID-19 arrived in the individual’s country and was the same regardless of differences in age and political affiliation.
Guess Who’s Curating New Exhibit at Baltimore Museum of Art? Their Staff of Security Guards:
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Guarding the Art is a special exhibition at the BMA curated entirely by the security detail. 17 members were each asked to select three pieces that they wanted to exhibit, and over the early days of the pandemic, they were tutored on how to curate, set lighting, and write placards. Guarding the Art was first imagined back in February 2020 when BMA trustee Amy Elias and Chief Curator Asma Naeem were talking over dinner about how to get the security guards more involved, and how to get different perspectives into the museum. What they found is that the team had more than enough love, curiosity, and knowledge of the art profession to curate an entire exhibition. With 95,000 pieces in the museum’s collection and only 1,800 on display at any given period, it’s no wonder the men and women who spend all day looking at them did an excellent job.
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