Forensic Psychology Dictionary

Forensic Psychology Dictionary

Molly is deaf - and now she's going blind

clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.nidcd.nih.gov Usher Syndrome What is Usher syndrome? Who is affected by Usher syndrome? What causes Usher syndrome? What are the characteristics of the three types of Usher syndrome? How is Usher syndrome diagnosed? Is genetic testing for Usher syndrome available? How is Usher syndrome treated? What research is being conducted on Usher syndrome? What are some of the latest research findings? Where can I get additional information?

Usher's syndrome

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yummy!

i'm sorry, no encores!

clipped from dailyshite.com This dude makes music on roller blades and ski-polls using bottles, golf balls, mouse traps and tons of other crap. It’s awesome, just don’t ask him for an encore…

oil companies caused KATRINA!

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Hurricane Katrina victims to sue oil companies over global warming Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the 2005 storm. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit. "The plaintiffs allege that defendants' operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming," say the documents seen by the AFP news agency. The increase in global surface air and water temperatures "in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs' private property, as well as public property useful to them."

okay this is just STUPID and they're praying to settle out of court and get a shut-up payoff from the oil companies. and none of these idiot drive CO2 and CO emitting cars?

100 points for human house...

this comes under the heading of "always be nicer than you need to be..."

clipped from www.geekologie.com Mar 3 2010Brings A Tear To My Eye: Three Guys Create 100,000 Keystroke Move-By-Move Script So A Blind Gamer Can Beat Ocarina Of Time Jordan Verner is blind. And he posted a few videos of himself playing through parts of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Youtube. But he wanted more, he wanted to beat the whole game. Thankfully, Roy Williams saw his videos. So Williams and thee other diehard gamers each took different parts and copied down every single move. "Every time we make a move, we roll, jump, do anything, we type down on the computer exactly what we're doing," said Williams.

be kinder than you need to be...

personally, i rescue worms after it rains.

clipped from www.jeffbridges.com Fish Story (Photos by Pam Driver) You probably wouldn't have believed this, if you hadn't seen the following pictures... Bill Driver, who lives in Wichita, KS, saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the lake and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a basketball which became stuck in its mouth!! The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface. Bill tried numerous times to get the ball out, but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife, Pam, cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish. Be kinder than necessary 'cause everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

puritan stupidity

we are the whiners we were warned about. stuff like this used to be funny, now it is scarey that americans are such big babies. EEEk EEEk

clipped from www.myfoxny.com Nude Snow Woman Updated: Wednesday, 03 Mar 2010, 11:24 AM EST Published : Wednesday, 03 Mar 2010, 8:45 AM EST MYFOXNY.COM - Police told a Rahway, New Jersey family to cover their nude snow woman after an anonymous complaint. Maria Conneran's family sculpted Venus de Milo in last week's snow outside their home on Colonia Boulevard. Gonzalez says Sgt. Dominick Sforza was apologetic when he went to the house and asked the family to dress the snow woman. The family added a green bikini top and a blue sarong bottom. The snow woman melted as the temperatures warmed up this week.

2oo1-2010 snow record!

yeah, but it's WARM snow!

clipped from wattsupwiththat.com 2001-2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University Global Snow Lab numbers (1967-2010) show that the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record.  The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded only by 1978.  Average winter snow extent during the past decade was greater than 45,500,000 km2, beating out the 1960s by about 70,000 km2, and beating out the 1990s by nearly 1,000,000 km2.  The bar chart below shows average winter snow extent for each decade going back to the late 1960s.

real truth...

so do i.

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5000 sex offenders (at least in the usa)

these days 'streakers' are charged as 'sex offender'. the night-time naked run in boulder colorado was canceled this year because anyone caught naked in public is charged with a sex offense and is put on the 'registered sex offender' list for life!

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Naked photo at Sydney Opera House highlights openness More than 5,000 people have shed their clothing on the steps of the Sydney Opera House to pose for a photograph by the American artist Spencer Tunick. "Gay men and women lay naked next to their straight neighbours and this delivered a very strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society," Tunick said. More than 5,000 men and women shed their clothing - people of all ages, shapes and sizes, who were undeterred by the chilly pre-dawn weather on this, the first morning of the southern autumn.

Lines go all over the place.

Lines go all over the place.
this is one of the art spots i'ved stumbled upon.

10 of the 13 rules of you, me, and them

the most important three a 'wizards' three rules'

clipped from brainz.org The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble. That's something. 1. 'Lord of the Flies': Social Identity Theory 2. The Stanford Prison Experiment: Power Corrupts 3. Obedience to Authority: Human Capacity for Cruelty 4. Conformity: Not Believing Your Lying Eyes 5. Lying to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance 6. Memory Manipulation: Do You Really Know What You Saw? 7. Magic Memory Number: 7 8. Anatomy of Mass Panic: War of the Worlds 9. The Bargaining Table: Threats Don't Work 10. Risky Behavior: Prospect Theory

seeking redemption...

most people know when they're wrong, few have the courage to admit it

clipped from www.nytimes.com Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap WARSAW — When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before he covered his shaved head with a skullcap, traded his fascist ideology for the Torah and renounced violence and hatred in favor of God. “I still struggle every day to discard my past ideas,” said Pawel, a 33-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew and former truck driver, noting with little irony that he had to stop hating Jews in order to become one. “When I look at an old picture of myself as a skinhead, I feel ashamed. Every day I try and do teshuvah,” he said, using the Hebrew word for repentance. “Every minute of every day. There is a lot to make up for.”