California cops Taser deaf man, beat him into unconsciousness as he tries to use sign language: lawsuit

Jonathan Meister, who is deaf, suffered injuries when he was tasered and beaten by cops on Feb. 13, 2013, a new lawsuit claims. Cops in California tasered a deaf man to the ground and then beat him into unconsciousness because he couldn’t hear their orders, a new lawsuit claims. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended … Read More

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The coming tech-lash

Everyone should be forgiven a certain amount of self-indulgence on their wedding day. But Sean Parker’s multi-million-dollar wedding last June in a forest in California’s Big Sur stretched the bounds of forgiveness. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading Tagged: read

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The Emotional Toll of Hell: Cross-National and Experimental Evidence for the Negative Well-Being Effects of Hell Beliefs

Though beliefs in Heaven and Hell are related, they are associated with different personality characteristics and social phenomena. Here we present three studies measuring Heaven and Hell beliefs’ associations with and impact on subjective well-being. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading Tagged: read

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