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Netflix and other streaming giants requested to include a ‘disclaimer’ for villains with ‘scars, marks, burns’

The charity organization Changing Faces wrote a letter to chief content officers at Netflix U.K., Amazon Prime Video, BBC IPlayer and Apple TV requesting that they help reduce the stigma of scars and other “visible differences” by including a disclaimer on its movies and TV shows.  “Every year, Halloween becomes […]

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Hamas terror, Mideast turmoil, Ukraine: How to cope with fear, uncertainty in troubling times

Fear is intended to warn us about imminent danger. It is a survival mechanism, connected directly to the fight or flight response as our bodies produce adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol in response to perceived danger.  Unfortunately, fear is also contagious, and so we may become worried about dangers that are not imminent, with no one to fight and nowhere to physically […]

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Professor and biologist bashed for questioning the existence of two genders in op-ed: Depends on ‘context’

University of Illinois Associate Prof. Charles Roseman and biologist Cara Ocobock questioned the existence of two genders in a controversial op-ed for the prestigious magazine Scientific American.  In an op-ed headlined, “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions,” the two authors claimed that the “answer to the […]

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