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As reported on Businessinsider.com by The Economist The.Rohit via Flickr NOURIEL ROUBINI, a guy who knows a lot about risk, tweets in favour of mandatory liability insurance for gun owners:  If we had liability insurance on guns, as we do 4 cars, we will see which insurance company would insure at which price folks with arsenals It’s an idea that seems to be gathering a bit of steam. At Forbes.com, John Wasik lays out the logic behind treating firearm deaths as…

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek While the debate over gun control and gun culture has gripped the nation following a series of high-profile shootings this year, leading some groups to momentarily step out of the spotlight, scores of firearm owners have taken to Twitter and Instagram on Christmas day to show off their new lethal hardware.   Joe Kemp@jkemp1775 Well, my 10 year old cousin got brass knuckles and an AR-15 for Christmas…pretty jealous…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARA INÉS CALDERÓN Google has been used for many ends, but in the hands ofresearcher Viridiana Rios, the search engine has become a tool to fight Mexican drug cartels and help the government organize to prevent violence. Rios is a researcher at Harvard University who recently published apaper about a tool she created to track publicly available cartel data and how it can inform Mexican security officials’ work. Rios is one of a…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Robert Johnson The Navy does its best to get troops home for the holidays when it can, but this display at Norfolk Naval base is still more the exception than the rule. Nine “Flattops,” five aircraft carriers, and four amphibious assault ships, are crammed together here at Norfolk among smaller ships and nuclear submarines from December 20, Navy photos. The nine flattops alone, number more than all eight battleships at Pearl Harbor in 1941. This cohort…

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Being proud of your work and showing some self-esteem and confidence will get you a long way in life, but at the office, sometimes it’s the ability to forgive yourself and learn from your mistakes that’s more valuable than pure ego. Self-compassion can help you learn and grow, which is key to succeeding in any career. Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, of the Columbia University Business School, explains in a…

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have created a map showing how and where the brain categorizes the actions and objects we see every day. The study began by taking five human subjects and placing them in an MRI machine while they each watched two hours of movie trailers. Each of the trailers had been analyzed to track the different objects and types of motion present — a leaf…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Adam Taylor AP At a press conference in response to last week’s tragic Sandy Hook shootings, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America.  The logic is simple — trained officers in possession of firearms would be able to neutralize those seeking to murder students. However, a number of recent shootings call this logic into question. Immediately after the NRA press conference, anti-gun…

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A reported on Businessinsider.com by Randy Astaiza What’s the best way to close a turkey without getting a bunch of ugly scarring? Why, veterinarians from Sweden have used their skin stapling and sewing skills to get the answer. To get your picture perfect turkey this holiday season scientists from Sweden have investigated the best way to close your stuffed turkey, reports Discover’s Discoblog’s NCBI ROLF columnist reports. (NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information, who…

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