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When Cringeworthy Gifts Are Worse Than Inconsiderate
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I have spent years doing consumer research related to gift giving. In my field, conventional wisdom surmises that when gifts fail to please recipients, it’s accidental. But I’ve determined that sometimes people give bad gifts on purpose.
My personal interest in this dynamic stems from a gag present my dad gave me when I was a kid. As I unwrapped his box in a box in a box, the anticipation grew bigger as the boxes got smaller. When I found that the last box was empty, it crushed me. He thought it was funny. (In my dad’s defense, this happened on April Fool’s Day, an occasion on which we had no gift-giving traditions.)
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Many of these false narratives can be found on the Oregonians for Medical Freedom Facebook page. The group started five years ago and has 12,000 members on Facebook. The organization is against vaccines, but board member Bob Snee said he doesn’t like the anti-vaxxer title.
“There are many members of our organization who vaccinate their children,” Snee said. “Some have completely vaccinated their children, others do it on an alternate schedule.”
Some anti-vaccine groups have pivoted to calling themselves “medical freedom” groups as a way to shed the anti-vaxxer stigma. According to NBC News, this tactic has led to more coverage of small rallies or protests, not normally covered by local news stations.
As detailed in a new study published last week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, a 14-member team of international researchers headed up by Dr. David Krause of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Dr. Simone Hoffmann of the New York Institute of Technology described their intensive analysis of the odd, opossum-sized animal that existed near the end of the Cretaceous period on the island of Madagascar.
Credit: Andrey Atuchin
These new revelations delve deep into the evolutionary history of mammals from the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana known currently as Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula.
Making of India s Daughter gave its editor a tailbone crack!
Making of India s Daughter gave its editor a tailbone crack!
Anuradha Singh, The Editor Of A 2015 BBC Documentary On The Nirbhaya Gangrape Case, Suffered A Crack In Her Tailbone In Order To Finish The Film. PTI | Updated on: 14 May 2017, 02:07:54 PM
New Delhi:
In a bid to finish the 2015 BBC documentary on the Nirbhaya gangrape case, Anuradha Singh, the editor, had suffered a crack in her tailbone while working 20 hours a day to finish the film that was later banned. India s Daughter , based on the life of the 23-year-old paramedic student who was brutally gangraped and died a fortnight later, also left Singh emotionally drained.