The Menace Within

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13 July 2011
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What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?

It began with an ad in the classifieds.

Male college students needed for psychological study of prison life. $15 per day for 1-2 weeks. More than 70 people volunteered to take part in the study, to be conducted in a fake prison housed inside Jordan Hall, on Stanford’s Main Quad. The leader of the study was 38-year-old psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. He and his fellow researchers selected 24 applicants and randomly assigned each to be a prisoner or a guard — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Rent-a-goats gain foothold

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13 July 2011
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In 24 hours, the goats reduced a bed of ivy to a mat of bare vines. They riddled the once-imposing blackberry thicket with tunnels.

In less than four days, the invasive plants would be vanquished, allowing sunlight to stream through the vacant lot next to the King County Metro bus depot in Bellevue.

With their four-chambered stomachs and insatiable desire to nibble on anything even resembling a plant, goats have gained credibility as land clearers among Seattle-area government agencies and private developers

Brown’s shock that his family medical records were hacked

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12 July 2011
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The crisis engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire dramatically worsened last night when it was claimed that private investigators working for The Sun and The Sunday Times targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown.

In another extraordinary day in the phone-hacking scandal, News International’s denials that illicit news-gathering techniques stretched beyond the News of the World came under strain in the face of well-sourced claims that two of its other best-selling titles were also involved in serious wrongdoing — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Pray Away the Gay at Candidate’s Clinic?

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12 July 2011
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A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be re-oriented.

[One counselor’s] path for my therapy would be to read the Bible, pray to God that I would no longer be gay, said Andrew Ramirez, who was 17-years-old at the time he sought help from Bachmann & Associates in suburban Minneapolis in 2004. And God would forgive me if I were straight

Maldives Dive Watch / Oris

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12 July 2011
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This watch follows in the footsteps of the popular Oris Great Barrier Reef Limited Edition watch from 2010, and while it does not have the 1,000 meter water resistance rating of the Great Barrier Reef, the Oris Maldives edition is unique in its own right with a titanium case, crown guard, and a ceramic-inlayed bezel that has a neat brushed finish on it. Limited to 2000 pieces, the Oris Maldives Limited Edition dive watch price is $2,450 on rubber strap and $2,650 on a metal bracelet — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog

How eBay’s data center benefited from solar

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eBay has installed a 100 KW solar array on its data centre in Denver. That’s not enough power to run a data centre, but Tom Price, eBay’s Global Data Centre Services manager, said the system, which was completed last November, is delivering benefits.

The solar array is taking up approximately 18,000 square feet of the 21,000-square-foot data centre roof. In an interview, Price outlined the project.

How is the power being used? The power runs non-critical loads, meaning it is being used to supply office space power. This includes equipment such as the desktops used by the data centre’s 35 employees. The office power is segregated from the data centre loads — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Graduated Piracy Response Coming To Australia, Or Else

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12 July 2011
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Under the banner of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, the big Hollywood studios are flexing their muscles down-under. If the latest rhetoric is to be believed, the country’s ISPs have less than 48 hours to commit to talks on a graduated response system to tackle illicit downloads. Failure to comply, they warn, will result in yet more legal action of the type being suffered by iiNet — via redwolf.newsvine.com

US man dies in Russian roulette incident

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12 July 2011
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A man in the US state of Colorado has died after shooting himself in the head during a game of Russian roulette, police said.

Anthony Martin, 21, and other men were drinking and playing with a gun before the incident, Pueblo Police Sgt Eric Bravo told the Pueblo Chieftain.

Mr Martin died at the scene early on Sunday — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Estate agents flouting tenant laws BBC investigation finds

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Some estate agents are prepared to flout critical laws that are designed to protect tenants from abuse, a BBC London investigation has found.

One rental manager was secretly filmed explaining he could harass problematic tenants by changing locks, calling them all day and lying to the police that they were running a brothel.

The housing charity Shelter and the National Association of Estate Agents have condemned the shocking practices uncovered by the undercover investigation and are calling for tougher regulation — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Regulator issues warning over contraceptive pill

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The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued a warning about the latest generation of oral contraceptive pill.

The British Medical Journal recently published two reports warning that women on the fourth generation pill are more likely to develop life-threatening blood clots.

The studies looked at pills containing drospirenone, marketed in Australia as Yasmin and Yaz — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Watch Collection of Ponzi Schemer Scott Rothstein To Hit Auction Block on 13 July

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11 July 2011
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Many of Scott Rothstein’s possessions were sold at auction on 23 January 2010 — including the aforementioned Franck Muller wall clock. However, Rothstein’s previously seized watch collection (250+ luxury watches, many worth tens of thousands of dollars apiece) has been held by the United States Treasury Department — until now. This Wednesday, July 13, 2011, Rothstein’s watches will be sold to the highest bidder at auction — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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