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If you've ever wondered how evil you are, now...
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Earlier this month we learned about the tragic...
How ordinary people can become monsters.
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[credit provider=”Lynnola / Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynnola/2408557827/”] Evil is alive and is lurking in the brains of certain individuals, if you believe news reports linked to a respected German neurologist. The news of the scientist’s discovery, however, has attracted some naysayers — including the neurologist himself.According to The Independent, Dr. Gerhard Roth […]
[credit provider=”AP Images” url=”http://www.apimages.com/OneUp.aspx?st=k&kw=adam%20lanza&showact=results&sort=relevance&intv=None&sh=10&kwstyle=and&adte=1355753701&pagez=60&cfasstyle=AND&rids=d744da45f15440418429de8646d926b3&dbm=PThirtyDay&page=1&xslt=1&mediatype=Photo”] As a medical historian whose research focuses on a time and place very alien to our own, I rarely comment on current events.However, in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 20 schoolchildren and six adults dead, I […]
[credit provider=”Dylan Love”] There’s a lot of handwringing about Google’s move to present paid listings—oh, heck, let’s just call them advertisements—in places where it used to provide pure, unpaid search results.It’s understandable that people are making a big deal about this.
[credit provider=”Wikipedia” url=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(comics)”] There’s a reason classic cartoon villains like the Joker, Cruella De Vil and Dick Dastardly are all drawn with pointy chins and sinister V-shaped eyebrows. According to researchers from Warwick University, downward pointing triangles make us feel threatened the same way an angry human face does.
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“I’m not saying their souls are evil, but what they’re doing is really, really wrong.”
Google pays an effective tax rate of only 3% on its international operations. How? Through a network of shell companies, reports the Irish Times. The nexus of it all is Ireland, which has the most corporation-friendly tax code in Europe.
Top banking industry executives are striking back against the surge in populist outrage. Dick Parsons, the Chairman of Citigroup (C) and former CEO of Time Warner says it’s not right to just blame bankers for the financial crisis.
We kind of love that he is going on and on and on about the crisis. Ok, we get it, we’re evil and we caused it. Next! But, no, looks like Benedict XVI has found an audience favourite and is running with it.
