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Helen Thomas, a pioneer for women in journalism, has died at age 92.The irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row to grill 10 presidents -- often to their discomfort and was not shy about sharing her opinions -- died at her apartment in Washington.Thomas had been ill for a long time and in and out of the hospital before coming home Thursday, said friend Muriel Dobbin. She made her name as a bulldog for United Press International in the great wire-service rivalries of old and as a pioneer for women in journalism.Thomas was persistent to the point of badgering. One White House press secretary described her questioning as "torture" -- and he was one of her fans.Her refusal to conceal her strong opinions, even when posing questions to a president, and her public hostility toward Israel, caused discomfort among colleagues.In 2010, that tendency ended a career that had started in 1943 and made her one of the best known journalists in Washington. On a videotape circulated on the Internet, she said Israelis should "get out of Palestine" and "go home" to Germany, Poland or the United States. The remark brought down widespread condemnation and she resigned.In January 2011, she became a columnist for a free weekly paper in a Washington suburb, months after the controversy forced her from her previous post.In her long career, she was indelibly associated with the ritual ending White House news conferences. She was
t take that at all to mean that we're constructing reality," he told LiveScience.All in the mindAs members of society, people create a form of collective reality. "We are all part of a community of minds," Freeman says in the show.For example, money, in reality, consists of pieces of paper, yet those papers represent something much more valuable. The pieces of paper have the power of life and death, Freeman says but they wouldn't be worth anything if people didn't believe in their power.Money is fiction, but it's useful fiction.Another fiction humans collectively engage in is optimism. Neuroscientist Tali Sharot of University College London studies "the optimism bias": people's tendency to generally overestimate the likelihood of positive events in their lives and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones.In the show, Sharot does an experiment in which she puts a man in a brain scanner, and asks him to rate the likelihood that negative events, such as lung cancer, will happen to him. Then, he is given the true likelihood.When the actual risks differ from the man's estimates, his frontal lobes light up. But the brain area does a better job of reacting to the discrepancy when the reality is more positive than what he guessed, Sharot said.This shows how humans are somewhat hardwired to be optimistic. That may be because optimism "tends to have a lot of positive outcomes," Sharot told LiveScience. Optimistic people tend to live longer
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