A Texas couple allegedly locked a 7-year-old boy out of their home and told him never to return because they believed he was posessed by demons, prompting the filing of child endangerment charges against both, according to multiple reports.
According to the Texarkana Gazette, police allege that on Aug. 26, 56-year-old Ronald Wright and his 39-year-old wife, Rendy Wright, forced her young son out of their home. The child was allegedly told by his mother and stepfather that he was being kicked out of the house for misbehaving.
Authorities were dispatched to the Wrights’ home in Hooks, Texas, after receiving a 911 call from a neighbor,...
According to the Texarkana Gazette, police allege that on Aug. 26, 56-year-old Ronald Wright and his 39-year-old wife, Rendy Wright, forced her young son out of their home. The child was allegedly told by his mother and stepfather that he was being kicked out of the house for misbehaving.
Authorities were dispatched to the Wrights’ home in Hooks, Texas, after receiving a 911 call from a neighbor,...
- 9/21/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
Survivng Progress is a new documentary based on the book ” A Short History of progress” by Ronald Wright and is produced by some of the talents from the National Film Board of Canada. The film is a doomsday-style warning much in the same vein as An Incovenient Truth from a few years ago. Not only is out-of-control consumerism a major culprit in the depletion of our planet’s resources, but the makers of this new film also touch upon recent economic turmoil, so there’s a bit of Inside Job thrown in. Unfortunately this takes away from Progress’s focus as does the reliance of talking head interviews with the author, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, and countless others over interesting, original visuals. To illustrate some of the lectures we see old film footage, a bit of CGI, Nasa space shuttle shots, and pixellated time-zipping-by shots of famous spots like Stonehenge...
- 6/8/2012
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Intel, PayPal, Pepsico, Google, Hp, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done.
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Ak. Pradeep knows what you like and why you like it. Take the sleek, slick iPad. Ask Mac lovers why they adore their tablet and they'll say it's the convenience, the touch screen, the design, the versatility. But Apple aficionados don't just like their iPads; they're preprogammed to like them. It's in their subconscious--the curves, the way it feels in their hands, and in the hormones their brains secrete when they touch the screen. "When you move an icon on the iPad and it does what you thought it would do, you're surprised and delighted it actually happened," he says. "That surprise and delight turns into a dopamine squirt, and you don't even know why you liked it."
Pradeep...
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Ak. Pradeep knows what you like and why you like it. Take the sleek, slick iPad. Ask Mac lovers why they adore their tablet and they'll say it's the convenience, the touch screen, the design, the versatility. But Apple aficionados don't just like their iPads; they're preprogammed to like them. It's in their subconscious--the curves, the way it feels in their hands, and in the hormones their brains secrete when they touch the screen. "When you move an icon on the iPad and it does what you thought it would do, you're surprised and delighted it actually happened," he says. "That surprise and delight turns into a dopamine squirt, and you don't even know why you liked it."
Pradeep...
- 8/10/2011
- by Adam L. Penenberg
- Fast Company
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