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- Brazilian Football Club Employs Fans’ Mothers as Stewards in Effort to Curb Violence
- Meet Japan’s Revolutionary Alliance of Men That Women Are Not Attracted To
- This Electric Thinking Cap Boosts Learning and Decision Making
| Brazilian Football Club Employs Fans’ Mothers as Stewards in Effort to Curb Violence Posted: 18 Feb 2015 04:20 AM PST In a bid to curb violence among football fans, a Brazilian club employed the hooligans' own mothers as stewards for a match held last Sunday. Sport Club do Recife hired and trained around 30 mothers for the derby against known rivals Nautico. The moms were put to work patrolling the pitch and were dressed in orange vests with the words 'Segurança Mae' on the back, Portuguese for 'Security Mom'. In recent years, the city of Recife has become one of Brazil's footballing hotbeds, with hooligans causing problems at almost every match of their home team. "The idea was to make the most fanatical supporters aware and help in some way to bring peace to stadiums," said Aricio Fortes, vice-president of Ogilvy, the PR company that came up with the idea. "At the end of the day, no one wants to fight in front of a mother, especially his own." |
| Meet Japan’s Revolutionary Alliance of Men That Women Are Not Attracted To Posted: 18 Feb 2015 03:10 AM PST Lots of single people complain about how Valentine's Day and other holidays are somehow designed to make them feel excluded, but this particular group of Japanese men have taken things even further – every year, they take to the streets to protest against the injustice of it all. They are called 'Kakumei-teki himote doumei', which literally translates to 'Revolutionary Alliance of Men That Women are Not Attracted To'. Popularly known as 'Kakuhidou', the group was founded in 2006, by Katsuhiro Furusawa, after being dumped by his girlfriend. He returned home dejected, and began reading the Communist Manifesto. That's when he came to realize that being unpopular with girls is an issue of class and a form of discrimination. So on Christmas Eve that year, he stood outside JR Akihabara Station and handed out flyers with the slogan 'Kurisumasu funsai!' ('Crush Christmas!'). |
| This Electric Thinking Cap Boosts Learning and Decision Making Posted: 18 Feb 2015 01:36 AM PST Up until a few weeks ago, the proverbial thinking cap only had a figurative meaning, but apparently science has finally managed to catch up. A couple of American scientists have created a real thinking cap that could help people learn and make decisions quicker. This unique device is the brainchild of psychology professor Geoff Woodman and Ph.D. student Robert Reinhart of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and works by sending very low electrical shocks to the brain when worn. The duo claim that the electrical stimulation of certain parts of the brain could make the wearer learn new skills and make better decisions. Indeed, studies performed on the human brain have revealed that negative voltage spikes occur in the medial-frontal cortex of the brain, milliseconds before we make a mistake. Woodman and Reinhart figured that a part of the brain can influence learning and decision making, helping us avoid the same mistakes later. |
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