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- Why cops don’t believe rape victims and how brain science can solve the problem. - Slate Magazine 2 hours ago
In the past decade, neurobiology has evolved to explain why victims respond in ways that make it seem like they could be lying, even when they’re not. Using imaging technology, scientists can identify which parts of the brain are activated when a person contemplates a traumatic memory such as sexual assault. The brain’s prefrontal cortex—which is key to decision-making and memory—often becomes temporarily impaired. The amygdala, known to encode emotional experiences, begins to dominate, triggering the release of stress hormones and helping to record particular fragments of sensory information. Victims can also experience tonic immobility—a sensation of being frozen in place—or a dissociative state. These types of withdrawal result from extreme fear yet often make it appear as if the victim did not resist the assault. - SEC Will Get Tougher On Wrongdoing At Big Banks 4 hours ago
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- Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment - The Washington Post 4 hours ago
Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it’s forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic. - Check out the full Bank of America whistleblower details (affidavits) - Salon.com 4 hours ago
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- Why cops don’t believe rape victims and how brain science can solve the problem. - Slate Magazine 2 hours ago
Reading List
- African American Pundit
- America, Love It or Heal It
- Bag News Notes
- Balloon Juice
- Blue Gal
- Box Turtle Bulletin
- Calitics: California Politics
- Deaf World As Eye See It
- Driftglass
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Empty Wheel
- Emptywheel
- Fuck Yeah Deafies
- Glenn Greenwald
- Good As You
- Hullabaloo
- Joe. My. God.
- John Scalzi
- Mother Jones
- Open Congress
- Pam's House Blend
- Pharyngula
- Popehat
- Relaxed Politics
- Religious Right Watch
- Savage Blog
- The Aboriginal Press
- The Daily Dish
- The Mahablog
- The Unapologetic Mexican
- Towleroad
- Zero Anthropology
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