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A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia’s southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months. Another Opposition Activist Is Killed in Russia (via NYTimes.com)
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It’s Always the Fixer Who Dies (via Boing Boing)
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Wired has a very cool little article that visualizes each “sin” on a map of our great nation: We’re gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly [...]
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Oh sweet irony! Neuroscientist Jim Fallon talks about brain scans and genetic analysis that may uncover the rotten wiring in the nature (and nurture) of murderers. In a too-strange-for-fiction twist, he shares a fascinating family history that makes his work chillingly personal. Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer (via TED.com)
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Alan Dershowitz writes a scathing article about the recent dissenting opinions of Justices Scalia and Thomas on a Death Row case: Surely it is among the worst sins, under Catholic teaching, to kill an innocent human being intentionally. Yet that is precisely what Scalia would authorize under his skewed view of the United States Constitution [...]
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