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Police: Iraq War Veteran Suspected Of Killing Park Ranger Found Dead

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Jan. 03 (News Report) - A plane searching the remote wilderness for Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, on Monday discovered his body lying partially submerged in an icy, snowy mountain creek with snow banks standing several feet high on either side.

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Stockbrokers More Competitive, Willing To Take Risks Than Psychopaths

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Sep. 27 (Research) - Various studies have suggested that a certain kind of psychological profile gravitates toward the fast-paced, high-pressure environment of the trading floor -- and that this profile probably has more than a little in common with psychopathic personality, a clinical condition marked by gregariousness, impulsiveness, dishonesty and lack of empathy.

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Debt Ceiling Holy War: Why Do Conservatives Have Unshakable Faith in Ideas That Are Totally, Demonstrably False? | | AlterNet

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Chauncey DeVega - Jul. 18 (News Analysis) - The Republican Party is holding the U.S. economy hostage. While the American people overwhelmingly support a solution to the debt ceiling impasse that includes a mix of tax hikes on the rich and cuts to the federal budget, the Tea Party GOP is deaf to their concerns.

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Teaching Empathy to the ‘Me’ Generation

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Eric Leake - Jul. 18 (Special Report) - A Midwestern university experiments in teaching empathy not merely through classroom curriculum, but by having students live the lives of the working poor. The six participating students and their community partners are introduced in turn. Diana Crandall, a first-year psychology major in a smart black jacket and tie, talks about the children she worked with through the Children’s Hunger Alliance. “I know that I can’t walk away from this and be the same person I was before.”

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PTSD Affecting U.S. Soldiers More Than British

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Jun. 23 (Research) - Combat stress is still a murky and sometimes taboo element of soldiering, but one of the strangest discoveries is that the strain isn’t evenly spread among vets from different countries. For example: A far higher percentage of American soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after combat in Iraq and Afghanistan than British soldiers do.

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Elizabeth Smart Case: Street Preacher Sentenced To Life In Prison For Kidnapping, Rape

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jennifer Dobner - May. 25 (News Report) - Mitchell's sentencing closed a major legal chapter in the heartbreaking ordeal that stalled for years after he was declared mentally ill and unfit to stand trial in state court. A federal jury in December unanimously convicted the 57-year-old of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines for sex.

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The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Apr. 18 (Special Report) - Through her, the aliens had given the precise date of an Earth-rending cataclysm: December 21, 1954. Some of Martin's followers quit their jobs and sold their property, expecting to be rescued by a flying saucer when the continent split asunder and a new

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New York Court to Hear Case Against Psychologist Accused of Torture in Guantánamo Interrogations

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 06 (News Report) - The Obama administration has announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks will be tried by military commissions at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay -- not in U.S. civilian court. There will, however, be one Guantánamo case tried in New York. Today the New York State Supreme Court will hear the case against Dr. John Leso, a psychologist accused of participating in torture during interrogation of detainees in Guantánamo. The case was brought on behalf of Dr. Steven Reisner, who is at the center of a growing group of medical professionals campaigning against the participation of psychologists in the U.S. government’s interrogation programs. [includes rush transcript]

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Killing the Mentally Ill

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Robert Wilbur - Apr. 03 (Investigative Report) - with Reagan's incision barely healed, politicos across the country lined up to strangle the insanity defense and, in four states (Idaho, Montana, Utah and, later, Kansas) to abolish it altogether. In 1984, the federal government hopped on board with its own draconian insanity defense statute.

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Aftershock: The Blast That Shook Psycho Platoon

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By T. Christian Miller, Daniel Zwerdling - Mar. 27 (Investigative Report) - "Shock waves from roadside bombs can ripple through soldiers’ brains, causing damage that sometimes leaves no visible scars but may cause lasting mental and physical harm. "

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Photos Implant ‘Memories’ of Fictional News Events

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Participants in a study were far more likely to “remember” a fictional news event when a headline was accompanied by a tangentially relevant photograph.

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More Discussion Will Not Find Consensus on Controversial Topics | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Nov. 11 (Special Report) - Talking out our differences on controversial scientific and technological issues may be just the wrong way to reach agreement, new research suggests.

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"Wartorn: 1861-2010" New Doc Chronicles Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder From Civil War to Iraq & Afghanistan

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Shariff Abdel Kouddous, Amy Goodman - Nov. 10 (Special Report) - A new documentary, "Wartorn: 1861-2010," airing on HBO on Veterans Day, chronicles the lingering effects of war on military veterans throughout American history, from the Civil War through today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We speak with the filmmakers, Jon Alpert and Matt O'Neil, and with the parents of two soldiers who committed suicide after coming home from Iraq.

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Death-Related Warnings Actually Increase Cigarettes' Appeal

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 10 (News Report) - New research suggests that, for a certain set of smokers, death warnings may actually increase the likelihood they'll light up.

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What Real Diversity Means

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By James Badham - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - The way Americans often squirm when terms like race and diversity are introduced suggests that even many best-intentioned approaches to these defining issues are all wrong.

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Veteran Suicides Outnumber US Military Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Nadia Prupis - Oct. 22 (Special Report) - More than 1,000 veterans in California under 35 died after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2008 - three times as many California service members who were killed in conflict overseas, according to a recently published Bay Citizen report.read more

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Shouts Banish Doubts

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Oct. 15 (Special Report) - New research suggests one reason our political discourse is so loud and angry: Planting seeds of doubt leads people to more vigorously advocate for their cherished beliefs

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Income Inequality Makes The Poor More Conservative: Study

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By William Alden - Oct. 07 (News Report) - Income inequality makes the poor more conservative -- more likely to support smaller government and actually to perpetuate income inequality, two academics argue in a report released earlier this year.

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For Elderly, Conservative Beliefs Buffer Self-Esteem

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Do people tend to grow more conservative as they grow older? That bit of folk wisdom is debated among academics — some studies say yes, others no.

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'Tension' Between Beck & Network

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Sep. 29 (News Report) - Glenn Beck appears on the cover of this weekend's New York Times Magazine in a lengthy profile written by Mark Leibovich. In the profile, Leibovich touches on tensions between Beck and Fox News, the network that catapulted him to stardom.

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Four out of Five Experts Agree With Me!

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Sep. 25 (News) - New research finds we trust experts who agree with our own opinions, suggesting that subjective feelings override scientific information.

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Law Professor's Blog Post Sparks Controversy Over Why The Rich Don't Feel 'Rich'

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By William Alden - Sep. 21 (News Report) - Law professor Todd Henderson's now-infamous blog entry about the mindset of the rich has incited such an uproar that he felt he needed to delete it.

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The CPR for Preventing Suicide

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Lisa Firestone - Sep. 02 (Other) - With September 5-11 marking National Suicide Prevention Week, I would like to use this blog to encourage everyone to learn the CPR to prevent suicide. Because people who feel suicidal are ambivalent--part of them wants to die but part of them wants to live--it is possible to reach out to them, and connect with, support and strengthen the part of them that wants to live. By learning how to detect risk and reach out effectively, we can all help to save a life. This year you may have noticed more headlines involving suicide. Though commonly a subject swept under the rug, speculation about an increase in the national suicide rate makes bringing the topic out in the open more important than ever. Though statistics on 2010 suicide rates aren't yet available, there has been a notable increase in calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline since the start of the recession. In addition, it's recently been reported that there have been more military lives lost to suicide than to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The concern over the possibility of increased suicides may correlate not only with military service but also with the economic state of our country, considerations that bring the subject of suicide closer to home than we may have believed it to be. According to statistics from the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, with more deaths by suicide than homicide occurring in the US every year. An average of one person completes suicides every 15.2 minutes, while one person makes a suicide attempt every 38 seconds. For every suicide, there is an average of six people who are intimately impacted. It has been estimated that 4.6 million Americans have survived the loss of someone close to them to suicide.

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Beyond Internet addiction: Ars diagnoses your online maladies

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Ars Staff - Aug. 29 (News) - As the American Psychiatric Association considers whether to make "Internet addiction" into a bona fide "disorder," Ars offers its own helpful suggestions for classifying mental maladjustment on the Internet.

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9/11 conspiracy theories

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wikipedia - Aug. 21 (Special Report) - 9/11 conspiracy theories allege that the September 11 attacks in 2001 were either intentionally allowed to happen or were a false flag operation orchestrated by an organization with elements inside the United States government.[1] A poll taken in 2006 by Scripps Howard and Ohio University showed that, "More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East."[2] The most prominent theory is that the collapse of the World Trade Center and 7 World Trade Center were the result of a controlled demolition rather than structural weakening due to fire.[3][4] Another prominent belief is that the Pentagon was hit by a missile launched by elements from inside the U.S. government[5] or that a commercial airliner was allowed to do so via an effective standdown of the American military.[6][7] Motives cited by conspiracy theorists include justifying the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and geostrategic interests in the Mideast, including pipeline plans launched in the early 1990s by Unocal and other oil companies.[8] Published reports and articles by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Popular Mechanics and mainstream media have rejected the 9/11 conspiracy theories.[9][10] The civil engineering establishment generally accepts that the impacts of jet aircraft at high speeds in combination with subsequent fires, rather than controlled demolition, led to the collapse of the Twin Towers.[11]

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