What would you do if you stumbled across this situation in your hallway? #AreYouThatSome1 pic.twitter.com/wurlDWLtgO — Stop Sexual Violence (@AreYouThatSome1) October 13, 2014 Related articles @AreYouThatSome1 Are You That Some1Continue Reading
Recreational drug and anaesthetic, ketamine, is being trialled in people with severe depression and is providing almost instant relief from symptoms, offering fresh hope of a quick new way to manage the illness at its worst. Ketamine, known colloquially as “Special K”, has been shown to alleviate depression in aContinue Reading
What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is the name used to describe a set of ‘mood swing‘ conditions, the most severe form of which used to be called ‘manic depression‘. Bipolar disorder I is the more severe disorder in terms of symptoms- with individuals being more likely to experience mania,Continue Reading
Heartbreaking photos from the latest ISIS attack http://t.co/n5zzWpN4YP pic.twitter.com/7U4SG6oyVG — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 13, 2014 The ongoing fight for Kobani, a strategically important city on the Turkey–Syria border, has become the latest front in ISIS’s crusade to create an Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. For weeks, ISIS fightersContinue Reading
Born in 1957, Georgina Beyer was the world’s first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world’s first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, and from November 1999 until February 2007 was an M.P. for the Labour Party in New Zealand. Assigned male at birth, and given the first name George,Continue Reading
Two high school teachers in Louisiana were arrested on Oct. 1 after they videotaped themselves having a threesome with a 16-year-old student. Although the boy claimed the act was consensual, he was under the age of consent in Louisiana. Accordingly, the case was deemed a sexual assault and both teachersContinue Reading
http://www.poemhunter.com/katherine-mansfield/biography/ Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, in 1888, into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. The daughter of a banker and born to a middle-class colonial family, she was also a first cousin of author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. Mansfield had two older sisters and a youngerContinue Reading
.@johnkeypm on Ebola: “New Zealanders can take confidence that we are well prepared.” — ONE News (@ONENewsNZ) October 12, 2014 New Zealand is “not immune” to the arrival of the deadly Ebola disease and may send military or humanitarian assistance overseas to help combat its spread, Prime Minister John KeyContinue Reading
http://media.newzealand.com/en/story-ideas/new-zealand-film-maker-peter-jackson/ Jackson grew up in Pukerua Bay, a coastal town near Wellington – and developed a love of films as a child. He has cited King Kong as one of his all-time favourite films, and fulfilled a life-long dream when he was signed on to remake the 1933 classic inContinue Reading
The impact of poverty on the developing brain: http://t.co/BbfdoZFSaF Psychology Today Magazine — John Marsden (@MarsdenTherapy) October 10, 2014 Recent studies show that the brains of poor children are impacted by poverty. An historical example of this claim, given by Robert Sapolsky, a leading researcher from Stanford, demonstrates this dramatically.Continue Reading
