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This seems somewhat more interesting than the attempt to create muggle quiddich a real sport. I bring you combat juggling:

HT: 22 Words

Awkward Science Stock Photography and The Scientific Process Through Stock Photography

Yes... this is exactly how it works.

Victim recalls assailant’s breasts, little else

"A woman intentionally rammed her car into a man’s car while arguing over a parking spot in the Haight, but the victim was so focused on her low-cut dress that all he could describe to officers afterward were her breasts, San Francisco police said Thursday."

New Kansas law ends statute of limitations for rape cases

"Cindy Hillebrand, 61, was raped 28 years ago in Topeka. The man convicted of raping her was later exonerated by DNA evidence, but that same evidence pointed to a convicted sex offender already in prison. Because of the five-year statute of limitations, it was too late for him to face prosecution for the attack on Hillebrand." If new physical evidence comes forward this seems reasonable to me, but not so much if no such evidence exists. Another reason for somewhat adjusting the statue of limitations here is a backlog in processing evidence.

Millennials at worship services are few but passionate

Ed Stetzer sees this basically as the nominals turning into the nones but not much else changing.

That title is a section of one of the briefs submitted to the Supreme Court on the issue of same-sex marriage. I'm not a fan of Mark Regnerus's research but those opposing him appear to engage in research methods at least as bad as anything they criticize in his. This post is somewhat in response to the APA's brief on the same subject.

You can find a criticism of the sorts of studies cited by the APA here in a 2012 journal publication which notes problems with:

(1) homogeneous sampling, (2) absence of comparison groups, (3) comparison group characteristics, (4) contradictory data, (5) the limited scope of children’s outcomes studied, (6) paucity of long-term outcome data, and (7) lack of APA-urged statistical power.

It's conclusion?

... strong assertions, including those made by the APA, [are] not empirically warranted.