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Fake news & conspiracy theorists equals real violence

Fake news & conspiracy theorists equals real violence

Bybetterblokesnz

Fake news delivers very real gunman to pizzeria caught up in alt-right conspiracy theory https://t.co/z041i9BKuk pic.twitter.com/UMHjR3jZNP — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 5, 2016 During the presidential campaign, some elements of the alt-right began fueling the conspiracy that Comet Ping Pong was in fact the site of a pedophilia ring used by high-ranking members of…

Violent and sexual female offenders

Bybetterblokesnz

Shaw and Dubois (1995) reviewed publications relating to violence by women from 1984 to 1994 and comment that violence by women has been neglected or avoided. Violent women, they say, are often perceived as masculine, mad, sad or evil. Skeem, Schubert, Stowman, Beeson, Mulvey, Gardner, et al. (2005) studied risk assessments by mental health professionals…

Your vocabulary aged 40 depends on how much you read as a teenager

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https://theconversation.com/your-vocabulary-aged-40-depends-on-how-much-you-read-as-a-teenager-33852 So who increased their vocabularies the most between the ages of 16 and 42? Our statistical analysis took account of differences in people’s socio-economic backgrounds and in their vocabulary test scores at the ages of five, ten and 16. We found that reading for pleasure in both childhood and adulthood made a difference to…