Obsession!
They named her T-1, a fearsome predator roaming the jungles near Pandharkawada (pop. 26, 567) in India. There have been a string of deaths creating panic in all those neighborhoods. Bodies have been found with missing limbs and big scratch marks.
Wildlife officials claim the tigress has developed a taste for human flesh. They say she has killed five. Locals claim the loss of at least fourteen.
India’s tiger count is at a high of 2,500, the world’s largest tiger population.
Violence!
Superheroes wield special powers to protect us from villainous knaves. And these characters idolized by young viewers send a strong message about good and evil.
But there’s a downside to this protection racket.
In “Violence Depicted in Superhero-Based Films Stratified by Protagonist/Antagonist and Gender,” a paper presented at this year’s American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference in Orlando, researchers find that, on average, the “good guys” are engaging
Gait!
A new development in China. Another surveillance tool.
Gait recognition!
Yep, now software can identify you by your body shape and how you walk. Even when your face is hidden!
Police in Beijing and Shanghai have already deployed gait recognition as part of a larger drive to develop artificial-intelligence-driven surveillance and superintendence of the population.
Said Huang Yongzhen, the CEO of Watrix, a China-based artificial intelligence company:
Our system can identify people
Trust!
In “Trust and All-Cause Mortality” published in The Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health, researchers from Lund University and Stockholm University think that a decreasing level of trust may be shortening the lifespan of people! Those more trusting of others lived longer than those suspicious of others.
25,000 Americans in a survey conducted between 1978 and 2010 were the source of their findings. This was part of the U.S. General Social Survey which, among other
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.