Silencing “India’s Daughter” - The New Yorker. The documentary “India’s Daughter,” by the British filmmaker Leslee Udwin, recounts the infamous and brutal rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012, an incident that sparked protests and spurred a national conversation about women’s rights and safety.
The film was scheduled to be broadcast on the Indian network NDTV this weekend, but a last-minute intervention by the Indian government banned its release.* The details of the crime are already well known in India. A twenty-three-year-old medical student named Jyoti Singh was walking home from a movie with a male friend at 8:30 P.M. At the center of Udwin’s film is a series of interviews with the man who was driving the bus that night, Mukesh Singh. The mens’ defense lawyers, whom Udwin also interviews, are perhaps more offensive than their client, belying the idea that education, in a general sense, instills respect for women. Kin recognition. Kin recognition (kin detection) refers to an organism's potential ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin.
In evolutionary biology and in psychology, such capabilities are presumed to have evolved to serve the adaptive function of inbreeding avoidance. Genetic sexual attraction. Genetic sexual attraction (GSA) is sexual attraction between close relatives, such as siblings or half-siblings, a parent and offspring, or first and second cousins, who first meet as adults.[1] The term was coined in the US in the late 1980s by Barbara Gonyo, the founder of Truth Seekers In Adoption, a Chicago-based support group for adoptees and their new-found relatives.[2] Contributing factors[edit] Heredity produces substantial physical and mental similarity between close relatives.
Shared interests and personality traits are commonly considered desirable in a mate. Facial discrimination. In a world obsessed with beauty, living with a facial disfigurement can be hard.
Neil Steinberg explores the past and present to find out what it’s like to look different. “Take your ear off for me, please,” Rosie Seelaus says to Randy James, who is sitting on a black exam chair in a special room designed for viewing colours in the Craniofacial Center on the Near West Side of Chicago. He reaches up and detaches his right ear, which she created for him out of silicone seven years before. The ear is shabby, stained from skin oil and mottled by daily use. Evgeny Morozov's selected writings. Selected Writings, 2006-2013 long-form pieces and reviews marked with *** Is Smart Making Us Dumb?
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War - Good for Whom? Mean world syndrome. "Mean world syndrome" is a term coined by George Gerbner to describe a phenomenon whereby violence-related content of mass media makes viewers believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is.
Mean world syndrome is one of the main conclusions of cultivation theory. Gerbner, a pioneer researcher on the effects of television on society, argued that people who watched a large amount of television tended to think of the world as an intimidating and unforgiving place. A direct correlation between the amount of television one watches and the amount of fear one harbors about the world has been proven. [1] The number of opinions, images, and attitudes that viewers tend to form when watching television will have a direct influence on how the viewer perceives the real world.
They will reflect and refer to the most common images or recurrent messages thought to have an impact on their own real lives. RE: Think Again. Only a fool... More Than Half Of American Schoolchildren Now Live In Poverty. For the first time, more than half of U.S. public school students live in low-income households, according to a new analysis from the Southern Education Foundation.
Overall, 51 percent of U.S. schoolchildren came from low-income households in 2013, according to the foundation, which analyzed data from National Center for Education Statistics on students eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Eligibility for free or subsidized lunch for students from low-income households serves as a proxy for gauging poverty, says the foundation, which advocates education equity for students in the South. The report shows the percentage of schoolchildren from poor households has grown steadily for nearly a quarter-century, from 32 percent in 1989. "By 2006, the national rate was 42 percent and, after the Great Recession, the rate climbed in 2011 to 48 percent," says the report. Crawling Out of the Muck. 60 Things Every Girl Wants But Wont Ask For. 1.
Touch her waist. 2. Actually talk to her. Sustainability is destroying the Earth. Don’t talk to me about sustainability.
You want to question my lifestyle, my impact, my ecological footprint? There is a monster standing over us, with a footprint so large it can trample a whole planet underfoot, without noticing or caring. This monster is Industrial Civilization. The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies. (Image: Breaking profiles via Shutterstock)Truthout doesn't take corporate money and we don't shy away from confronting the root causes of injustice. Can you help sustain our work with a tax-deductible donation? The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage.
He is our foremost oracle. Ten Popular Mind Control Techniques Used Today. The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has been orchestrated by those who study human behavior in order to bend large populations to the will of a small “elite” group.
Today, we have entered a perilous phase where mind control has taken on a physical, scientific dimension that threatens to become a permanent state if we do not become aware of the tools at the disposal of the technocratic dictatorship unfolding on a worldwide scale. Modern mind control is both technological and psychological. Tests show that simply by exposing the methods of mind control, the effects can be reduced or eliminated, at least for mind control advertising and propaganda.
» Ten Year Old Suspended For Pointing Imaginary Ray Gun Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! Real psychics: Criminal profiling and the F.B.I. On November 16, 1940, workers at the Consolidated Edison building on West Sixty-fourth Street in Manhattan found a homemade pipe bomb on a windowsill. Attached was a note: “Con Edison crooks, this is for you.”
In September of 1941, a second bomb was found, on Nineteenth Street, just a few blocks from Con Edison’s headquarters, near Union Square. It had been left in the street, wrapped in a sock. A few months later, the New York police received a letter promising to “bring the Con Edison to justice—they will pay for their dastardly deeds.” The Psychopath: The Mask of Sanity. THE PSYCHOPATH - The Mask of Sanity Special Research Project of the Quantum Future School Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Internet troll personality study: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism. Medioimages/Photodisc In the past few years, the science of Internet trollology has made some strides. Last year, for instance, we learned that by hurling insults and inciting discord in online comment sections, so-called Internet trolls (who are frequently anonymous) have a polarizing effect on audiences, leading to politicization, rather than deeper understanding of scientific topics.
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Post Blog Week Five: Hegemony and Cultural Appropriation in Fashion. The Indian Fashion Show: Manipulating Representations of Native Attire in Museum Exhibits to Fight Stereotypes in 1942 and 1998 - American Indian Culture and Research Journal - Volume 31, Number 3 / 2007 - UCLA American Indian Studies Center. GWS 485: Politics of Fashion. In Nancy J.
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(Research Paper) Kawaii: Culture of Cuteness. A Glimpse of the World. Cute Culture. Talk Nerdy to Me. Lloyd Pye's "Everything You Know Is Wrong" The Psychedelic Sixties. The Work of Terence and Dennis McKenna – An Appreciation. Microscopic Images of Alcoholic Drinks - InsaneTwist.