Bullies

Many people have learned firsthand that bullies can make school a living hell. Redditor ‘pasanquecosas’ was no exception, but for her, things took a turn for the better when one of the popular guys started to defend her.He didn’t do that out of completely altruistic motives, though, as she was expected to take care of his homework. After graduating, they never spoke again, until one day he messaged her with a rather unexpected offer—he wanted to buy her a house.Bullies can make one’s years in high school a living…

Are you also one of those people who “Just Can’t Get Enough” of the 1980s? Or perhaps you feel nostalgia for a time you weren’t alive for. Either way, one content creator has managed to bring a transformative decade back, keeping the 1980s alive and well through her vintage outfits and, most of all, her visits to dead malls.20-year-old Jordan Rumsey isn’t your typical Gen-Z; she’s quite the opposite. At first glance, you would think she has just time-traveled from a Back to the Future movie premiere with a special…

Research shows that mice avoid previously victorious opponents due to brain responses triggered by oxytocin, highlighting a biological basis for social learning and avoidance behaviors. Credit: SciTechDaily.comFindings may offer insight into social disorders like autism.Like humans, mice live in complex social groups, fight over territory and mates, and learn when it is safer to avoid certain opponents. After losing even a brief fight, the defeated animals will flee from the mice that hurt them for weeks afterward, a new…

Credit: Mikhail Nilov from Pexels "Pupil stabbed to death at Gauteng school had suffered history of bullying." "Grade 6 learner commits suicide after bullying." "Grade 11 learner takes her own life after taunts over her appearance." These are just some headlines about the occasionally tragic effects of violent school bullying in South African…

Lizzo has a gift for making people feel special.A heartwarming video of the “Special” artist at a recent concert in Sydney encouraging a young fan to stand up to her bullies has gone viral this week on social media. In the clip, Lizzo invites 11-year-old Monroe Mills onstage after spotting her sign in the crowd.“Pls help me show my haters that I’m 100% that b—,” read the poster, which references Lizzo’s hit song “Truth Hurts.”“You don’t need my help,” the pop musician told the little girl holding the sign.“You are so…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead. New research from Dartmouth, however, shows that being uncooperative can help people on the weaker side of the power dynamic achieve a more…

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has vetoed a bill that would’ve set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers in the state. His decision—the first veto of his gubernatorial tenure—came after Uber threatened to cease operations across most of Minnesota, if the legislation became law.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving Car“Rideshare drivers deserve safe working conditions and fair wages,” Walz wrote in a letter announcing the veto on Thursday. “However, House File 2369 is not the right bill to achieve these goals and is simply not ready to…

Even with a very popular actor (Stranger Things David Harbour), a “fresh” Tomatometer rating, and a high audience score, the newly released Violent Night just couldn’t muster up enough holiday cheer to stave off the blockbuster monster that is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The Black Panther sequel brought in an additional $17.59 million in its fourth week in theaters bringing it to a stunning total of $733 million worldwide. Violent Night was also bested by the hybrid release of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,…

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Gov. Gavin Newsom said political attack ads he's funding that are running in Florida and Texas are retribution for the Republican-backed recall against him."It's literally me taking advantage of the moment that I'm in," Newsom said in an exclusive interview with CNBC. "I had to raise, I think we put over $80 million to defend ourselves in a recall last year. These guys nationalized the recall campaign against me. They went after our values, went after our people, went after things we hold dear in the…

Early this year one of the world’s most prominent scientists, Eric Lander, had to resign his position as President Joe Biden’s science adviser and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was forced to quit because of evidence that he had bullied staff members and created a hostile work environment. Lander, a leader in the successful effort to sequence the human genome, had headed the prestigious Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. before being tapped for the White House job. He now joins…