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The Word “Cult” Is Used A Lot Nowadays – What Is A Cult?

27Apr

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SOCIETY, TOP FOUR

The Word “Cult” Is Used A Lot Nowadays – What Is A Cult?

The word “cult” is used a lot nowadays. Former President Donald Trump has been likened to a cult leader. Democratic California congresswoman Jackie Speier recently compared Trump to Jim Jones, the infamous leader of Peoples Temple, an American religious group of which nearly 1,000 members died by mass murder-suicide in Guyana in 1978. A congressional staffer at the time, Speier was seriously wounded by temple members during an ambush that killed Congressman Leo Ryan of San Francisco. Then there’s NXIVM, a “sex cult” based in Albany, New York. Media reports and evidence at trial revealed that NXIVM’s female members recruited “slaves,” who were branded with the initials of the group’s leader, Keith Raniere. Raniere, also called the “Vanguard,” was sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex t...

Don’t Believe What You See On Crime Shows – Psychopaths Can Feel Emotions And Can Be Treated

27Apr

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CULTURE, TOP FOUR

Don’t Believe What You See On Crime Shows – Psychopaths Can Feel Emotions And Can Be Treated

On any given day, millions of Americans curl up to watch their favorite crime shows. Whether it is “FBI” on CBS, “Dexter” on Showtime, “Mindhunter” on Netflix, “Killing Eve” on BBC, reruns of “Law & Order,” or any of a myriad of other similar shows, they draw huge audiences with their vivid portrayals of villains whose behaviors are perplexingly cruel. I’ll confess: I am part of that audience. My students even make fun of how much crime television I, a researcher who studies criminal behavior, watch. I justify some of my TV time as work, providing material for my undergraduate lecture course and for my seminars on the nature of the criminal mind. But I am also captivated by the characters in these dramas, despite – or because of – how unrealistic many of them are. One of the most com...

Keke Palmer Grew Up In Front Of The Cameras, And Grew Up Real Fine

24Apr

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CELEBRITY MAIN NEWS, TOP FOUR

Keke Palmer Grew Up In Front Of The Cameras, And Grew Up Real Fine

Making her acting debut at age eight in the film Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), she landed the career-turning role of Akeelah in Akeelah and the Bee (2006) with Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. The film won 11 awards from various organizations, plus an additional 15 nominations; Keke herself won four and had three noms. Her next two film credits were as Rose Cutler in Cleaner (2007) with Samuel L. Jackson, and Jasmine in The Longshots(2008) with Ice Cube. In 2008, she was cast as True Jackson in her own Nickelodeon TV series, True Jackson, VP, a part she held from 2008-2011, taking her from age 15 to age 18, officially ushering her into adulthood. Want Free Access to Keke Palmer Sexy Pics & Clips? Click Here An accomplished singer as well as an actress, she held her own...

For Poor Performance Abusive Bosses Often Blame A Worker’s Lack Of Effort Or Care When It’s Their Own Biases That May Be The Problem

17Apr

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IMPACT, TOP FOUR

For Poor Performance Abusive Bosses Often Blame A Worker’s Lack Of Effort Or Care When It’s Their Own Biases That May Be The Problem

Managers may mistreat employees who perform poorly because they assume it results from a lack of diligence rather than other factors, according to research we published in September 2021. Surveys show that about 1 in 7 U.S. workers feel that their manager engages in hostile behaviors toward them. Abusive supervision may range from relatively mild behaviors such as lying or not giving credit for work to more severe actions, such as insults or ridicule. While past research has suggested that it’s the poor performance of workers provoking managers’ abusive reactions, we wanted to examine whether the faulty perception of the supervisor deserves at least some of the blame. So we conducted two studies, drawing on research showing that people are prone to perceptual errors when judging negativ...

Tight White-Blonde Curls Of Julia Garner

17Apr

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CELEBRITY MAIN NEWS, TOP FOUR

Tight White-Blonde Curls Of Julia Garner

Sporting a cherubic face topped off by a lush mop of tight white-blonde curls, it's no wonder that Julia Garner would have a heavenly body to match. Teen drama came calling for Julia when she appeared in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), before she took her perky pair to horror in The Last Exorcism Part II (2013). Her mythical sexuality in I Believe in Unicorns (2014) made us one horny mofo, especially when she makes out with Stranger Things star Natalia Dyer, even if they were fully clothed. Julia finally made showed her dong awaited nude debut when she bared her buns skinny dipping with Juno Temple in One Percent More Humid (2017) which made things hot hot hot. Julia next wore black lingerie to lust after in an episode of Girls and this girl is someone to drool over with a body li...

Truly The Michael Jordan Of Sexy Young Actors

17Apr

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CELEBRITIES, TOP FOUR

Truly The Michael Jordan Of Sexy Young Actors

The ‘B’ in Michael B. Jordan must stand for “beautiful”, because he’s one handsome guy! In fairness, it's probably to keep him from getting mistaken for his airness, but that doesn't mean it's not true! People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2020, Michael grew up modeling as a kid, before hitting the TV screens in episodes of The Sopranos and Cosby. Still young, he joined Keanu Reeves in the inner city baseball flick Hardball (2001), RIP G-Baby, before he really became a star as the teen drug dealer Wallace on The Wire. Few remember the absolute A-lister had a long run as, get this, Chadwick Boseman's replacement as Reggie Porter Montgomery on All My Children but everyone remembers Michael's work as the lightning fast juvenile delinquent turned star running back Vince Howard on Friday N...

12Apr

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CULTURE, TOP FOUR

Who Owns Your Tattoo? Maybe Not You

More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent. What could be more intimately a part of you than a work of body art permanently inked into your skin? You probably assume that the tattoo on your body belongs to you. But, in actuality, somebody else might own your tattoo. Recent lawsuits and events have shown that tattoo artists and companies can have intellectual property rights in tattoos worn by others, including both copyright and trademark rights. Tattoo-related lawsuits are not uncommon. Just this year, a group of tattoo artists for several high-profile athletes, including Lebron James and Kobe Bryant, filed a copyright lawsuit against the creators of the popular NBA 2K video game franchise because tattoos the...

One In Four People Regrets Having Tattoos – Can You Make It Go Away?

12Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, TOP FOUR

One In Four People Regrets Having Tattoos – Can You Make It Go Away?

Almost half of people between 18 and 35 have tattoos, and almost one in four regrets it, according to a 2016 Harris Poll. Based on an estimate of about 60 million people in that age group, that would mean that about 7.5 million people have tattoo regret. As a primary care physician, I’ve noticed anecdotally that many of my younger patients have regrets about their tattoos. When I ask about them, many say that they got them when they were young, and at the time put little or no research into the decision. With no source (reliable or otherwise) of tattoo information to suggest to my patients, I began to investigate the topic myself. My goal was to write a quick reference for teens that reviewed the health and social issues they might encounter after getting a tattoo. What I found was myri...

Turns Out If You Have Plants In Your Home You Will Have A Healthy Home

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, TOP FOUR

Turns Out If You Have Plants In Your Home You Will Have A Healthy Home

More and more people are discovering the benefits of having house plants. We all know that plants absorb carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen; but that's not all - they also effectively reduce the amount of airborne chemicals in a given space, that's why it's ideal to have at least one house plant! If you're wondering what plant you should go for, consider any of these top 5 indoor plants for a healthy home: Spider Plant One of the most popular and most favored house plant is the spider plant. It looks pretty with long green leaves that look like green fireworks. But aesthetics aside, they're good for cleaning the air of an area and scrubbing it of toxic chemicals found in common household goods like nail polish, paint and rubber. Not only that, the spider plant is also ideal for ...

As Gender Discrimination And Racism Intersect Transgender People Of Color Face Unique Challenges

1Apr

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LGBTQ, TOP FOUR

As Gender Discrimination And Racism Intersect Transgender People Of Color Face Unique Challenges

Throughout history, transgender people of color have had a place of honor in many indigenous cultures around the world. This changed in many places, however, as European colonizers began forcing indigenous people to follow white social norms. These include anti-Blackness, Christianity and a gender binary that reduced gender to just man and woman. Colonizers presumed that being cisgender, or having a gender identity that is congruent with gender assigned at birth, was the only acceptable norm. For trans people who refused or were unable to conform, colonial societies often used racism and cissexism, or behaviors and beliefs that assume the inferiority of trans people, to invalidate their existence, limit their access to resources and threaten their well-being. For example, colonizers in s...