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A New State of Mind Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Decoding the brain is hard work. It is incredibly complex and we don't even know what the code is - chemical, electrical, both, neither let alone how to decode it. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter may be the key to unlocking the brain's encryption and may be linked to complex social phenomena as well as changing neuroscience in the process.
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Social sites reveal class divide Posted: 2 years ago by pjanaway
Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study.
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Social Security Quick Calculator Posted: 2 years ago by gammerus
What will you retire with?
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Media Watchdog: Four Simple Steps to Hoaxing the Press Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
MSNBC anchor David Shuster was the victim of a hoax.
... And in retrospect, Martin Eisenstadt isn’t too convincing of an advisor (just watch those YouTube videos!). But it worked just the same. If you want to create a fake policy adviser, how do you do it? What’s the best way to hoax the media?
Just follow these 4 steps...
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Woman Targets 9-Year-Old With Craigslist Ad Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
A social worker has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child for posting a sexually suggestive ad on Craigslist directing callers to the home of a 9-year-old girl
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Serial killer may be hunting officials responsible for losing millions of Japanese 'Social Security' records Posted: 1 year ago by tigertony
Bureaucrats here have infuriated the Japanese public by losing millions of government pension records. This week, someone with a knife and a willingness to kill appears to be hunting them down.
With the mess the US Social Security is in, how long will it take for something similar to happen here?
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Did Google just sneakily launch a Facebook killer? Posted: 7 months ago by bernardblack
Google now offers a portfolio feature you can edit to be displayed whenever people search for your name. What is the purpose of them being given so much information about you? Could it be for their own social network?
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Convert All Kinds of File Types Posted: 2 years ago by cheeselog1234
Media Convert allows you to convert all different types of files. Free, online, no spyware, nothing - they don't even ask you for your email address. Just upload your file and choose the output file type, download and there you have it!
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The Social Classes of the Unpopular Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
BANG! An eruption of laughter fills the vicinity as you desperately try to learn your surroundings. You feel as if the world has gotten much colder and darker as you realize your arms and legs are contorted around your body. Faint rays of light are slipping through three small slits in front of you. Suddenly it dawns on you, your in your school locker.
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Net users see mainstream media as biased Posted: 2 years ago by hisidea
As many as 38% of those who rely mostly on the internet for news say they have an unfavorable opinion of cable news networks such as CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, compared with 25% of the public overall.
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Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web Posted: 4 days ago by Bornbad
The granularity of user decisions is much finer on the Web, which is dominated by the instant gratification of the user's needs in any given instant. Content must cater to this rapid pace.
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Stephen King: Maybe We Should 'Waterboard' Jenna Bush Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
Time Magazine recently conducted an interview with the best-selling novelist Stephen King that quickly turned into a discussion about media, news organizations, and politics.
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Watching me watching you Posted: 2 months ago by ThirDeye
New research suggests that 25% of people in the UK suffer from some form of paranoia.
Will paranoia worsen as we move towards complex personal surveillance, the result of the heavy use of social networking sites such as Facebook?
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Media Mythbusters Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
A new Wiki that keeps track of false and/or blatantly biased reporting from our agenda-driven mainstream media.
Whether it is photoshopped photographs, outright lies, biased bending of the truth or omission of details, this site will expose it.
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Facebook Founder Insists He Wants Some Privacy (Hah!) Posted: 2 years ago by deepcleanfun
Social networking Web sites can seem dedicated to the idea that nobody’s personal life is worth keeping private, but when it comes to Mark Zuckerberg — the founder of Facebook, one of the largest networks — Facebook disagrees.
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Alien Video to be Shown to the Media Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
A video, showing a live alien will be revealed to the news media in Denver. The video recorded with the help of infrared camera shows an alien head looking in the window at night.
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Should the Media be Concerned with Telling us What’s Right? Posted: 1 year ago by pvisi111
Ron Fournier: "Just because a public official says it doesn't mean you need to put it in your story or give his claim equal billing to what you know to be true. We have an obligation to write factual and fair stories, but we are not obliged to print attack."
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GOOD Posted: 12 months ago by Bornbad
GOOD creates media "for people who give a damn."
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This mother went on the run across Europe after social workers tried to snatch her son. Her crime? Letting him see her husband shout at her... Posted: 4 months ago by Doggylives
Parents who social workers say might shout at, or even loudly reprimand, their children in the future have been branded as potential emotional abusers and had their toddlers or newborn babies removed from them.
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Social Hygiene Posters from the 1920s Posted: 2 years ago by cheeselog1234
The U.S. Public Health Service and the American Social Hygiene Association prepared elaborate poster displays during the 1920s in order to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases. “Keeping Fit” “Youth and Life” was a 48-poster series designed to educate girls and young women about the dangers of sexual promiscuity and urged them to embrace moral and physical fitness.
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