violence

This was in Capital Hill -- what a tragedy.

Quoted: A man shot and killed six people he was partying with in a Seattle home on Saturday before taking his own life with a sawed-off shotgun, police said.

Quoted: What was the thinking behind cutting the measly few thousand dollars needed to cover the yearly cost of swabs, specimen containers and medical tests? ... The rape-kit controversy is a troubling matter. The insult to rape victims is obvious. So is the sexism inherent in singling them out to foot the bill for investigating their own case. And the main result of billing rape victims is to protect their attackers by discouraging women from reporting sexual assaults.

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Glucocorticoids are steroids produced by bodies at times of stress. Prolonged stress(and exposure to the steroids) damages hippocampus neurons. PTSD and depression(ie chronic stress) can cause permanent damage to the hippocampus, slow neurogenesis and affect memory.

From studies of baboon clans, this steroid level-
(a) is generally low in high ranking males and high in low ranking males. They are high for high-ranking males when the societal hierarchy is under threat.
(b) is high when the personal threat is unpredictable and arbitrary.
(c) is higher when a baboon is unable to distinguish a real threat from a non-threat.
(d) is lower where baboons have a social outlet for anger.
(e) is lower when they are sociable and not alone.

This is messed up.

Quoted: Abhijeet Mahato (29), a student from Jharkhand doing research in an engineering college in North Carolina, has been shot dead.

Quoted: The gunman was said by some witnesses to have fired about 20 shots into a crowd at a Von Maur department store. The police said that five other people had been injured in the shootings.

Quoted: The violence that has rocked the Niger Delta in recent years has been aimed largely at foreign oil companies, their expatriate workers and the police officers and soldiers whose job it is to protect them. Hundreds of kidnappings, pipeline bombings and attacks on flow stations and army barracks have occurred in the past two years alone. But these days the guns have turned inward,

Quoted: Several political organizations in Bolivia are pushing to preserve endangered traditions like Tinku, an ancient ritual once widespread throughout the Andean world.

Quoted: Two little brother team up to defeat their child beating dad. (No kids were harmed in the production of this movie.)

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Quoted: FOX Report - Bill O'Reilly on Lesbian Gangs - Dykes Taking Over - Random Acts of Violence Against Men - Male- Bashing Man Hating Lesbians ...