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The study shows that women who possess these body image concerns are twice as likely to compare their own bodies to those of the thin models in the advertisements

social media fulfilled the role of real-time reporting

powerful instrument of public scrutiny

Still, social media cannot prevent police brutality on its own.

Doctor X is a trained physician that works on harm reduction projects in real life but helps Silk Road users in his free time by providing answers to any of their questions—all for free. He started in June 2013, and received 600 questions and 5,000 visits after just three months. In an interview with Joseph Cox of Vice, Doctor X said: "Drug users need more...They need answers, and that's what I try to provide. People ask me about the real risks and adverse effects, drug combinations [illegal and prescriptive] and the use of drugs in persons suffering from different conditions, such as diabetes or neurological problems."

If you answered yes to any of those questions, exposure to technology may be slowly reshaping your personality.

Some experts suggest simply trying to curtail the amount of time you spend online. Set limits for how often you check e-mail or force yourself to leave your cellphone at home occasionally.

Moving forward to the early 20th century, a group of amateur writers called the 'Baker Street Irregulars', which included such luminaries as F.D. Roosevelt and Isaac Asimov, spent time writing and sharing further adventures for none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great fictional dweller of 221b; once the official literary canon had stopped, these fans took it into their own hands to continue the detective's narrative.

To sexualize a person in a video game (or any medium really) is to reduce them to an object; to reduce their value down to a sexual thing.  

Even better: let’s leave sexualization out of our games.  Sexy is cool and is but a single variety of character personality.  Sexualization is a whole other thing.  And for women, a largely negative thing.

geeky-looking Google self-driving car.  And data being the plural of anecdote, I’m certainly open to the possibility.  But the robots-are-coming advocates need to explain why a phenomenon that should be associated with accelerating productivity is allegedly occurring over a fairly protracted period where the trend in output per hour is going the other way.