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After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules

28 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]

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The Neuroscience of Reality

28 August 2019by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Anil K. Seth Scientific American On the 10th of April this year Pope Francis, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former rebel leader Riek Machar sat down together […]

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LAW

Criminal Justice in a World Without Free Will

15 January 2018by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James Flynn Brown Political Review Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center […]

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Women vs. Machines

18 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Erika Hayasaki Foreign Policy It started as a seemingly sweet Twitter chatbot. Modeled after a millennial, it awakened on the internet from behind a pixelated image of a full-lipped young female […]

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Can Virtual Reality Prevent Pedophiles from Harming Children in Real Life?

19 January 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Cecilia D’Anastasio Broadly Growing up, Camryn had always considered his taste in women particular: short, flat-chested, youthful. The girls he had liked in high school were smaller in stature, a […]

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LAW

Punishment’s Purpose: How Humans Became Hardwired for Justice

20 April 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Morris B. Hoffman Reuters One of the positive things about the media frenzy over cases like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Aurora Theater shooting is that these types […]

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LAW

Who Lives and Who Dies

31 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Paul Farmer London Review of Books What is it like to be a passenger on a bus, or standing in a cheering crowd at the finishing line of a […]

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