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Do Brain Implants Change Your Identity?
Do Brain Implants Change Your Identity?
As neural devices proliferate, so do reports of personality changes, foundering relationships, and people who want to leave their careers.
·newyorker.com·
Do Brain Implants Change Your Identity?
NYPD Officer Sent To Psych Ward By Superiors After Reporting Corruption
NYPD Officer Sent To Psych Ward By Superiors After Reporting Corruption
Graham Rayman at the Village Voice brings us more on officer Adrian Schoolcraft, the modern day Serpico who was sent to a psych ward for reporting on corruption in the NYPD. While working out of the 81st precinct in Brooklyn, Schoolcraft became aware of a pattern of crime victims getting caught up in bureaucratic hurdles that seemed to have purposely been set up to make it hard to report serious crimes. Schoolcraft reported a number of these incidents to investigators. That's where things take a turn for the insane:
·gawker.com·
NYPD Officer Sent To Psych Ward By Superiors After Reporting Corruption
Asian woman walking in Manhattan bashed with hammer by stranger demanding victim remove mask
Asian woman walking in Manhattan bashed with hammer by stranger demanding victim remove mask
An Asian woman walking in Midtown Manhattan was bashed in the head with a hammer by a stranger demanding the victim remove her mask, police said Monday. The NYPD is investigating the attack as a possible hate crime, the latest in a string of bias-fueled attacks against Asian victims in New York City.
·nydailynews.com·
Asian woman walking in Manhattan bashed with hammer by stranger demanding victim remove mask
Op-Ed: Why theater makes us better people. Bring it back
Op-Ed: Why theater makes us better people. Bring it back
After seeing plays, audience members expressed more empathy for the groups depicted onstage and changed their attitudes about a wide range of political issues.
·latimes.com·
Op-Ed: Why theater makes us better people. Bring it back
3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change
3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change
Which sounds more urgent: "global warming" or "pollution blanket overheating planet"? In this actionable talk, communications strategist John Marshall explains why we need to rethink how we talk about climate change -- and offers small but mighty language adjustments to get people to more intuitively understand and care about this existential threat.
·ted.com·
3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change
Don’t Underestimate the Power of Kindness at Work
Don’t Underestimate the Power of Kindness at Work
Organizations benefit from actively fostering kindness. In workplaces where acts of kindness become the norm, the spillover effects can multiply fast. When people receive an act of kindness, they pay it back, research shows — and not just to the same person, but often to someone entirely new. This leads to a culture of generosity in an organization. The authors outline more of the research-backed benefits of kindness, share their own research on how giving compliments boosts happiness, and offer practical tips for managers who want to promote kindness on their team.
·hbr.org·
Don’t Underestimate the Power of Kindness at Work
The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion
The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion
Nature - Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.
·nature.com·
The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion
How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.
·news.harvard.edu·
How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
Retired Black players say NFL brain-injury payouts show bias
Retired Black players say NFL brain-injury payouts show bias
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory.
·apnews.com·
Retired Black players say NFL brain-injury payouts show bias