Dead Man’s Gun

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Gun Play •

Biology and the particular gun culture of the United States come together to explain the persistent and powerful attraction of American boys to both real guns and toy guns. The 1990s saw adults begin to conflate “the gun problem” with “the boy problem,” sparking attempts (largely failed) to banish toy guns from homes and schools. Following the approach of play scholar Gregory Bateson, this arti...

Thomas Vicary and the Anatomie of Mans Body

Dysfunction of prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia includes changes in GABAergic mRNAs, including decreased expression of GAD1, encoding the 67 kDa glutamate decarboxylase (GAD67) GABA synthesis enzyme. The underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Alterations in DNA methylation as an epigenetic regulator of gene expression are thought to play a role but this hypothesis is difficult to tes...

How Dead are Dead Links ?

Research papers usually contain a significant number of links to other resources. For the most part, they reference other printed research papers, but there are also a non-trivial number of links to resources on the World Wide Web. Unlike printed research papers, references to WWW resources may become invalid after time. The server containing the page may be taken offline, be temporarily unavai...

Investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault.

OBJECTIVES We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time. METHODS We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Philadelphia, PA, from 2003 to 2006. We adjusted odds ratios for confounding variables. RESULTS After adjustment, individuals in possession of...