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No, Saudi TV Didn’t Blur Out Michelle Obama’s Face When the President Met King Salman

by BrittAfford Posted on January 27, 2015

Mother Jones

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Twitter is hopping right now about how Saudi TV allegedly blurred Michelle Obama’s face, thanks to this YouTube video:

Only it’s bullshit. The YouTube uploader appears to have added the blur, not some Saudi TV network.

(Here is another video the YouTuber uploaded that’s blurred.)

This version shows no such blur:

Nothing is real on the internet.

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No, Saudi TV Didn’t Blur Out Michelle Obama’s Face When the President Met King Salman

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Lead and Crime: Schoolyard Fighting Edition

by BrittAfford Posted on June 17, 2014

Mother Jones

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If lead exposure in childhood produces more aggressive behavior later in life, you’d expect lead exposure to be highly correlated with later rates of violent crime. And it is. But you’d also expect to see increases in violent behavior all along the spectrum. Not just rapes and murders, but ordinary bar fights and punching out kids in school hallways. Unfortunately there’s not much data on this stuff. Unless it rises to the level of cops being called and charges being filed, bar fights just aren’t tabulated anywhere.

But it turns out that schoolyard fights are. And guess what? They’ve been steadily decreasing ever since 1993, just as you’d expect. It’s too bad we don’t have earlier data, so we could see if high-school fighting rose in the 60s and 70s, but this is still an interesting data point that supports the lead theory. It’s not just the most violent crime that’s declined over the past two decades, it’s also the more prosaic types of less intense violence.

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Lead and Crime: Schoolyard Fighting Edition

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