Murder and Your Brain | TIME
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 10 minutes
| 2054 words
| Kelle Repass
Evil isn’t easy. Say what you will about history’s monsters, they had to overcome a lot of powerful neural wiring to commit the crimes they did. The human brain is coded for compassion, for guilt, for a kind of empathic pain that causes the person inflicting harm to feel a degree of suffering that is in many ways as intense as what the victim is experiencing. Somehow, that all gets decoupled—and a new study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience brings science a step closer to understanding exactly what goes on in the brain of a killer.
[Read More]My Household Get-out-the-vote Campaign Hits a Teen Roadblock
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 4 minutes
| 813 words
| Tandra Barner
When another son went off to college this past summer, I made it clear that I required four things of him:
1. Eat vegetables
2. Get good grades
3. Make friends
4. Register to vote
My son is going to school in Pennsylvania, so that last requirement was particularly important, even if he does think battleground state has something to do with Gettysburg, or maybe the Steelers and the Eagles.
[Read More]National Waffle Day: 2016 Stranger Things Eleven Loves Eggo
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 2 minutes
| 385 words
| Billy Koelling
If there’s a breakout character to emerge from Stranger Things, summer’s most talked about show, it’s Eleven. And while Dustin had his loyalty to Nilla wafers, Hopper had his Schlitz beer dinners and all of Hawkins’ cutest had their Hunts Snack Packs, no food favorite was more prominent than Eleven’s waffles. Eleven was Eggo’s best non-paying customer.
Incidentally, Aug. 24, is National Waffle Day to mark the anniversary of the first U.
[Read More]Navy Revises Hair Rules for Women at Boot Camp
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| 405 words
| Billy Koelling
The Navy said Thursday that it is halting, at least temporarily, its practice of cutting female recruits’ hair short when they arrive at boot camp.
The service said it was taking the step “in an effort to standardize training and education across the military services,” following orders last year from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to review hair regulations after revised Army hair rules upset some female soldiers.
The ban on haircuts will run for the first three months of this year, and is in response to female sailors complaining that the short haircuts didn’t prepare them adequately for grooming the longer hairstyles permitted once they graduated into the fleet.
[Read More]Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners With Mobile Ads
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1160 words
| Patria Henriques
Podcasters are always hunting for new, flashy places to promote their shows, ranging from billboards to floats in parades to airplane banners. Some networks, though, have uncovered a less-glamorous, yet highly effective way to gain millions of bankable listeners: loading up mobile games with a particular kind of ad.
Each time a player taps on one of these fleeting in-game ads—and wins some virtual loot for doing so—a podcast episode begins downloading on their device.
[Read More]POLITICAL NOTES: The Ball Carrier
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 994 words
| Billy Koelling
One Sunday evening, as a February wind knifed across Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill, four members of the new, reform-minded Republican Assembly knocked on the door of William Thacher Longstreth. The four had come to extend an invitation. It was worded to appeal to Longstreth as a former Princeton football star. an advertising executive and a lifelong Republican. Said the spokesman, referring to the woes of boss-ridden Philadelphia Republicanism: “We’re back on our two-yard line, but I think I see a chink of light through the line and a way to go all the way — 98 yards for a touchdown.
[Read More]Pro-Palestinian Americans Pressure Biden Over Israel
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1427 words
| Patria Henriques
After Israel’s assault on Gaza killed five members of Monadel Herzallah’s family, he decided to sue President Joe Biden. Herzallah—a U.S. citizen—had already taken part in protests and written to his representatives. This felt like the logical next step. “We have exhausted every possible way we can raise our voice,” he says in an interview with TIME. “They did not stop the genocide.”
On Nov. 13, Palestinians in Gaza and the U.
[Read More]SHELLY LAZARUS - The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 78 words
| Billy Koelling
AGE: 61 OCCUPATION: CEO and chairwoman of Ogilvy & Mather advertising NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0 PRO: Greenlit the meteorically successful "Campaign for Real Beauty" for Dove and the similarly popular "My Life, My Card" campaign for American Express. CON: Hired the dude who created those quasi-ironically un-gallant Axe Body Spray commercials, which represent the polar opposite of the enlightened humanism that her top campaigns trade in.
[Read More]Shifty Shellshock, Crazy Town Frontman and Butterfly Singer, Dies at 49
Posted on August 4, 2024
| 4 minutes
| 789 words
| Billy Koelling
Shifty Shellshock, the frontman of rap rock band Crazy Town who sang the hit song “Butterfly,” has died. He was 49.
According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s website, Shellshock — whose birth name was Seth Binzer — died at his residence on Monday.
[Read More]Swan Songs: Celebrating the Oscar Fashion Disaster
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Critics and stylists have made the true awards-night catastrophe all but extinct, but the red carpet needs its share of black sheep
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