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I found this report the other day on Eurekalert. The article reports:
"Rice University’s Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country’s most-attended transfer-level community college courses — elementary statistics. The book, "Collaborative Statistics," has been used [...]

I found this link in Providentia
A Shocking Discovery (Part One)
It speaks about the discovery of the electroshock by the psychiatrists in the 1930s. As it seems, this is a series of articles discussing this issue. I felt compeled to offer my personal viewpoint concerning a few facts about psychiatry.
The above link may appear a [...]

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Men’s sexual orientation recognised in a fraction of a second.
The above link points to a very interesting research (Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms). The experimenters showed a series of faces to the subjects and the subjects could identify with 57% accuracy which of them were homosexual. The [...]

Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets.
This above link is some news posted on Eurekalert. It’s a study proving that poor people are more likely to buy lottery tickets
"In the study, published in the July issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, participants who were made to feel [...]

 
I had the luck to watch the Dark Knight in the world premiere. This movie just stuck in my head and I couldn’t get it out. I believe that it has steered many issues and there are a lot of things to say about it, so I decided to write a post and publish some [...]

Press Release: Neuropolicy Center Confronts the Biological Basis of Collective Decision Making
I found the above link in the Neuromarketing (Neuromarketing » Neuropolicy Center at Emory). It’s a press release about the opening of a new center for the correlation between brain and political behavior. 
I believe that we start to see a pattern here. At the [...]

Ex-cop may be charged in case of man Tasered to death – CNN.com.
All right. This is all wacked up.
 
This news article publicshed in CNN raises three important issues:
1)Drugs
2)Guns
3)Law inforcement
I want this to be a series of three articles treating all 3, saying as much as I can say in a few words. The first installment [...]