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You can t simply blame the candidates. look at what s going on in our homes and society. people are strident, emotional and passionate about this election. families have broken up over it. you have facebook defriending old friends and what have you. i had a middle school student in my office yesterday working on a school project and she said there have been fights breaking out in her school. she also said teachers came in wednesday morning and several of them were crying. i don t think you can relieve anyone of responsibility for this. we have been just way too hostile and emotional with each other during the course of this campaign. i got a letter this morning from a university of michigan student where someone painted a rock, some antitrump protesters painted a rock that said kill them all. she said on the campuses, if you are a trump supporter, if you backed him in this campaign, you can t mention it. ....
Whether he s the person that s pushing the button on a phone or somebody is trying to convey a message. clearly he understands the use of it. he specifically does not participate in facebook. it s a consideration but they didn t do it because of what? he didn t want to have to respond to people one on one as you do friending and defriending and all that kind of thing? i think you re right one of the things the vatican is interested in doing is reaching out globally, using communication technology but being cautious. for instance is it really appropriate for the leader of the world religion to be personal friends with someone on facebook and to be liking or disliking things. from the vatican s perspective, something like twitter is much more suitable because twitter allows the pope to engage in that conversation with global audiences about the nature of values or social justice. but in a way that s much more oriented toward this global ....
Civil behavior column for the new york times. if we manage to dodge that awkward conversation over a meal at thanksgiving, we ve got more meals ahead of us, don t we, where this still might happen. and thanks to social media, the researchers at the pew center find that 40% of our friends hold political beliefs that do surprise us, that we do not expect. so in those situations, what do you suggest? yes, absolutely, richard. and good christmas eve day to you. i guess i m not surprised by the last segment that we didn t hear civility in the top search terms, did we. no. so yes. it was kind of surprising this pew study that showed that 40 of us are surprised by our friends and families political views and we really owe that to what facebook and twitter are showing us. in the old days what we didn t know, we didn t know. but now we do. so we spend the year defriending, blocking, hiding, inflaming each other and then all of a sudden it s christmas eve dinner or christmas day and ....
It s science. ron burgundy is right and he s wrong. women s brains aren t that much that proportioned smaller. women s brains, however, according to science, are smaller. they ve used mri s at the university of pennsylvania. what they figured out is that women s brains may be smaller, but they re more efficient. look at that. 8% smaller. good at thinking. i can keep track of a changing situation. yes, you can. and women handle stress by defriending. let s talk about it. look into my in my eyes. we like to run away. your brain is not efficient. it s bigger. it s bigger. that allows to us drink more. we understand space and landscapes better. how many times are we able to look at a rows of crops and know exactly how far it goes. the rows of crops? yeah. ....
Even the united kingdom is looking towards doing something like that. why sit on the fence and turn it over to the rad cat islamists and the al qaeda which may be the case. bill: there is a power vacuum in the world. that s clear to see. jack keane, i appreciate your analysis. martha: coming up, a lurid tale of money and murder as a woman goes on trial accused of defriending a jackpot befriending a jackpot winner. she conned him out of the money and then she killed them. the drama that s unfolding in court. i m telling you not to do it because it am not in your best interest. you are now made aware of that. no, ma am. ....