Read this article, it is short, and interesting.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychological condition whereby people who have been exposed to a trauma suffer anxiety, depression, and vivid hallucinations that sort of “re-enact” the trauma. It occurs most often in military veterans, victims of crime and so on, and it can be completely debilitating.
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I’m afraid I am going to have to take back some of the nice things I said about 4chan. The first reason for this is that the posting of child pornography, that I had thought to be an occasional abberation, actually appears to be a daily event. While the moderators do their best to stamp it out when they find it the sheer volume of content on the site makes this almost impossible.
The second reason relates to the in-jokes that the site is famous for. Unfortunately one of these in-jokes basically boils down to this: whenever someone says something, ANYTHING, about black people it is a signal to all the trolls to come out from under the bridge and post as much offensive, racist content as possible. Now the fact that this happens is hardly surprising. But what annoys me is the degree to which it is an entrenched part of the culture of the site.
Danger! Science ahead!
There has been a lot of debate about the dangers of Genetically Modified foods. Those who are against GM foods say that genetic modification of food stuffs is dangerous because there is no way to know how new genes will behave in a living organism and also because every time humans try to modify an environment we tend to fuck up quite badly (rabbits in Australia, killer bees in the US etc.).
Those in favour of GM products counter by saying that humans have been altering the genes of our food through selective breeding for millennia. For example wild bananas have huge seeds that make them hard to eat, it was only through breeding that we made them as wonderfully handy as they are. And think about the humble carrot; there is a theory that it’s only orange because it was bred to be orange as a happy birthday to the Dutch royal family.
