Words That Wound People may feel ashamed or afraid to talk about abuse, including the verbal kind, so the researchers from Northeastern University asked their older subjects to respond to questions by touching a computer screen. It gave them more privacy. They instructed these seniors to think about the person who helped them most with their care – […]
Why mass killers need to explain their plan: Column Thanks to a seven-minute YouTube video and a 141-page autobiographical tale of a troubled life, we have a fairly clear idea of why 22-year-old Elliot Rodger took to the streets of an ordinarily tranquil oceanside community in Southern California with enough guns and ammo to carry out a bloodbath. Even before the names of the six victims killed and […]
No Rise In Mass Killings, But Their Impact Is Huge A gold plaque hangs next to a bullet hole in the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a lone gunman killed six worshippers and injured three others last August. It is engraved with the words, “We Are One.” “It frames the wound,” says Pardeep Kaleka, son of former temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka, who […]