Be pro-social
To succeed in news casting, women must have fuckability—according to newsman John Westacott. This sexist boss also told his news team that “Sheilas do health and consumer stories. You want your blokes, your main guns, doing the real news stories.“ For those of us opposed to sexism, 2008 was a difficult year. In addition to … Read more
A Florida network of 28 youth-shelters for is saving the state $15 million per year by preventing juvenile crime and parental abuse. Despite the success, the brilliant legislators in Florida are going to cut the budget, which will likely lead to an increase in crime and abuse.
“Describing an event straight after it occurs makes witnesses more susceptible to providing false information in subsequent retellings, a new study finds.”
“Almost one-third of the world’s people don’t get enough iodine from food and water. The result in extreme cases is large goiters that swell their necks, or other obvious impairments such as dwarfism or cretinism. But far more common is mental slowness.”
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland released interesting data about India and terrorism.
“An Italian judge on Wednesday suspended a kidnapping trial linked to the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program after the government said testimony could be a threat to Italy’s national security.”
“The latest round of violence comes hours after Israeli police and military forcibly removed a group of settlers from a disputed home in Hebron.”
“The research results show how established norms and rules in a society could keep freeloaders in check and increase pro-social behavior, such as helping others or sharing with them rather than looking out for number one.”
It’s official, Pres. Bush and his allies are more destructive than three hurricanes: “The number of people using food stamps in September surpassed the previous peak of 29.85 million seen in November 2005 when victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma received emergency benefits.” Ten percent of all Americans are so poor that they are … Read more
“Sadly for spinal anesthesia and neurology patients, the medical community has largely ignored these discoveries. I believe that one reason is that my technique uses a very inexpensively manufactured non-patented needle (about $0.50 cents each). By contrast, the most popular anesthesia needles today use PATENTED designs which are hard to manufacture, and consequently command prices … Read more