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Daylight Savings Time and your personal safety – Birmingham Times

Daylight savings time takes an hour of daylight off of the day. For many people, this means taking care of tasks when darkness falls. When it is dark outside, personal safety is always a top concern. The tips provided here make it much easier to stay safe, even when it is getting dark outside earlier […]

Prosecutor Tells Pregnant Woman Punched in Stomach: “Assault on a Latino by a Latino” Deserves Less Protection

According to Locke Bell, the district attorney of Gaston County, North Carolina, the ethnicity of a domestic-violence survivor can disqualify that person from equal protection under the law. The Charlotte Observer reports that Bell refused to certify a domestic violence survivor’s visa application because he thinks the relevant law protecting crime victims “was never intended to protect Latinos from Latinos.”

‘Stranger Danger’ Makes People Less Empathetic

Being around strangers can cause people stress and, in turn, make them less able to feel others’ pain, new research suggests. But giving people a drug that blocks the body’s stress response can restore that sense of empathy, scientists said. What’s more, the same effect shows up in both humans and mice.

“In some sense, we’ve figured out what to do about increasing empathy as a practical matter,” said Jeffrey Mogil, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal. “We’ve figured out what stops it from happening and, therefore, the solution to make it happen more between strangers.”

BY TIA GHOSE, LIVESCIENCE

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