September 9, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Freddie Gray's family to receive a $6.4 million wrongful-death settlement from the city of Baltimore.
- The Freddie Gray settlement is more than the $5.7 million Baltimore paid in total from 2011 to 2014 in police brutality lawsuits.
- Some experts believe taking misconduct settlements out of policing budgets could result in fewer brutality incidents.
- In its 70 years, the UN has spent nearly half a trillion dollars—annual expenditures are about 40% higher than in the '50s.
- The jury's still out on the UN's efficacy; meanwhile, its refugee agency is now seeking $30.5 million in emergency funds.
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon admits the Security Council has failed Syria.
- John McAfee announces his bid for the presidency, along with the creation of the new Cyber Party.
- Research shows prison education greatly reduces recidivism, but real higher education programs are few and far between.
- Compulsive decluttering—basically the opposite of hoarding—can hint to larger problems, but our cleanly culture makes it hard to diagnose.
- Longtime mental health sufferer Kitty Dukakis is educating others on the effectiveness of electric shock treatment.
- After a lifetime of mental illness, a woman tries electroconvulsive therapy.
- The history of lowbrow fave Franzia involves Prohibition, Al Capone, and one woman responsible for half the wine business in the US.
- Homeopathy conference in Germany ends after attendees—apparently unknowingly—ingest hallucinogens.
- "Researchers with no evident countercultural tendencies are...finding psychedelic drugs a valuable adjunct to psychotherapy."
- For decades, the US government banned medical studies of LSD. But for one elite researcher, the promise of revelations was too tempting.
- Palestine's only female taxi driver wants a taxi fleet driven by women, for women passengers.
- One of the top American mountaineers has been doing some great mountaineering storytelling through his Instagram.
- Created entirely through CG, this stunning short is based upon artworks by Yayoi Kusama and Ai Weiwei.
