A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
No. 1 – Olive Branch, MS
Over the last two decades Janice Turner has seen Olive Branch flourish. A small town became Mississippi’s ninth-largest city as thousands of people relocated across the state line from Memphis.
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A British nurse was refused permission to live in New Zealand because she weighed 294 pounds, official documents disclosed.
Continue reading… “Nurse Told She Is Too Obese To Move To New Zealand”
A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly examined the relationship between first name popularity in adolescents and tendency to commit crime. Results show that, regardless of race, juveniles with unpopular names are more likely to engage in criminal activity.
David E. Kalist and Daniel Y. Lee of Shippensburg University analyzed state data by comparing the first names of male juvenile delinquents to the first names of male juveniles in the population.
Continue reading… “Teens with Unpopular Names More Prone To Commit Crimes”