Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

In the United States, in 2014, more cash and property transferred hands via civil asset forfeiture than via burglary. The total value of asset forfeitures was more than one-third of the total value of property stolen by criminals in 2014. That represents something of a sea change in the way police do business — and it's prompting plenty of scrutiny of the practice.

How You're Born May Affect Your Brain Development

Looking at the behavior of baby mice, the researchers found that cesarean-born mice made softer cries when separated from their mothers at 9 days old than mice born vaginally. This could be meaningful for a little mouse's life and survival, Forger said, because other research has found that moms pay more attention to the mouse babies when they're louder.

Why Do Some People Find Deepak Chopra Quotes Deep And Not Dung?

This kind of tendency also feeds into broadly resonating societal effects, such as the susceptibilities that led—and still lead—some people to chase false “cures” for everything from autism to cancer, to follow false prophets who promise them transformation and revelation of hidden beauty while giving them nothing, and to confuse categories of existence and believe that the material is magical. And that is deeply, deeply important to understand.

Is free speech really a right worth protecting anymore?

Those that are allowed to self-publish on the internet without any regard for what they write are some of the worst, most hateful, racist bigots left on planet Earth. To make matters worse, blacks and browns are far less able to defend themselves on the online battlefield due to the far lower literacy rates that have been foisted upon them by white oppression.

Behind the ‘white student unions’ springing up at Australian universities

“We think the ideas and issues we’re raising have become more relevant to students as a new strain of political correctness has swept across the Western world over the past few years promoting ideas like ‘white privilege’. There are all these nasty ideas around now that white people, particularly white men, are always ‘privileged’ regardless of their background and personal circumstances and that if they suffer hardship they deserve it, and that white people are the cause of everything that’s wrong in the world.”

Nutella rejects personalised jar for five-year-old girl named Isis

Ms Taylor said she would not be in favour of putting the name "Hitler" on a jar of Nutella, but her case was different because she named her daughter before the rise of Islamic State, she said. She also has no intention of changing her daughter's name, and argues the name Isis needed to be reclaimed.

US asteroid-mining act is dangerous and potentially illegal

The idea that American companies can on the basis of domestic laws alone systematically exploit mineral resources in space, despite huge environmental risks, really amounts to the audacity of greed. The Romans had this all correctly figured out in their legal maxim: “What concerns all must be decided upon by all.”