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Daily Archives: October 24, 2014
Canadian Terror Attacks: What You Need to Know! – Stefan Molyneux
Soldier, 24, shot dead by Muslim convert Michael Zehaf-Bibeau who opened fire on Canadian Parliament in terrifying attack that left capital on lockdown. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, was shot dead after opening fire at Parliament Hill. He was born in Quebec but reportedly recently converted to Islam and had his passport seized after being designated a ‘high-risk traveler’. He shot reserve soldier Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial before running inside Parliament and exchanging gunfire with guards. Heroic Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers shot him dead. Police initially said there were multiple gunmen and at a press conference, they would not rule out other suspects. Witness accounts of a suspect include descriptions of him as short with long hair, overweight, wearing a dark jacket and ‘Arabic scarf’. What is the history behind the recent attack on Canada’s Parliament by reported Muslim convert Michael Zehaf-Bibeau? Why do these attacks happen? How can we stop them? Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, breaks down the deep history behind religious terrorism, and the relationship between ISIS, the war on terror, and modern terrorism.
What Pisses Me Off About The Michael Brown Shooting – Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux is irritated – a scathing look at the rush to judgment and fervent race-baiting in the Michael Brown shooting case. New evidence and witness testimony has emerged as the grand jury decides the future of Officer Darren Wilson in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri riots.
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What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set? – NYTimes.com
One day in the fall of 1981, eight men in their 70s stepped out of a van in front of a converted monastery in New Hampshire. They shuffled forward, a few of them arthritically stooped, a couple with canes. Then they passed through the door and entered a time warp. Perry Como crooned on a vintage radio. Ed Sullivan welcomed guests on a black-and-white TV. Everything inside — including the books on the shelves and the magazines lying around — were designed to conjure 1959. This was to be the men’s home for five days as they participated in a radical experiment, cooked up by a young psychologist named Ellen Langer.Continue reading the main storyRELATED COVERAGEThe Health Issue: Old Masters at the Top of Their GameOCT. 23, 2014The Health Issue: Can Video Games Fend Off Mental Decline?OCT. 23, 2014The subjects were in good health, but aging had left its mark. “This was before 75 was the new 55,” says Langer, who is 67 and the longest-serving professor of psychology at Harvard. Before arriving, the men were assessed on such measures as dexterity, grip strength, flexibility, hearing and vision, memory and cognition — probably the closest things the gerontologists of the time could come to the testable biomarkers of age. Langer predicted the numbers would be quite different after five days, when the subjects emerged from what was to be a fairly intense psychological intervention.
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