I think the public has unreasonable expectations. In order for him to do his job he needs to protect himself. He is not there to protect you.

“Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law. “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.”
https://ehlinelaw.com/blog/do-police-have-a-duty-to-protect-me

Also: RadioLab No Special Duty - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-special-duty

Apparently people without the right vocabulary fail this test too. Here's a Radiolab about a deaf community that developed its own sign language and how they fared on the test as the language developed. I found it pretty interesting when I first heard it.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91730-new-words-new-world/

Natural order is decentralized, emergent, and unregulated.

I like radiolab. I agree, they could leave a bit more air time. They're well researched though. I follow this topic relatively closely, but they still showed me something and managed to keep me entertained.

Sorry in advance for the hate-filled pose, but:

Dooooohhh...

Fuck Radiolab. This piece shit construct of modern media ruins otherwise intelligent radio. Apparently the "ADHD" generation has become so much the norm that we can no longer listen to an entire sentence, so they cut every micro-thought up with hosts speaking over one another constantly.

You will never hear an interview on this "show". You will hear a topic, and few seconds of clips by some people who are remotely associated with the story, while these attention-whores decide to constantly, constantly, cut off the sound clip and proceed to, not even just tell you what the person was going to say, but they'll cut right in mid-sentence and guess what the person was going to say, and then have their little not-for-resale mini-quips interrupting each other back and forth while they try to form a coherent thought.

Evidently their audience lacks the patience to hear one speaker say more than 5 words in a row, and is incapable of forming their own thoughts based off of someone from the source of the topic, so they'll intentionally stumble around their "presentation" to help you form what to think.

And you know I loath to use general labeling, but they are to the liberal media, what fox is to the conservative. Fuck these people to a bloody, messy, death.

Radiolab is a pretty cool podcast. One of many that I subscribe to.

http://www.radiolab.org/2012/dec/17/man-became-bliss/

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Good point. I say this calls for some controlled experimentation by Mythbusters.>> ^HaricotVert:

Although QI has a ton of fact checkers and are typically correct, there are some problems with the study they quoted. Radiolab discussed the findings of the "cat terminal velocity," and had Neil deGrasse Tyson on as a guest to dispute the study based on that it was working from a biased sample. That is to say, the study would have a disproportionately high number of cases where cats fell from heights of X feet, yet sustained non-life threatening injuries, and then were brought to vets by their panicked owners to get them checked out. The vets only have those cats that owners actually brought in to document the height from which they fell.
Cats that are obviously dead after falling from any height (whether 2nd story or 30th) are typically not brought in to vets. They're buried.
>> ^messenger:
According to QI, any higher than 7 stories, and a cat's skin will spread out like a wingsuit and it will glide to the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts

>> ^HaricotVert:

Although QI has a ton of fact checkers and are typically correct, there are some problems with the study they quoted. Radiolab discussed the findings of the "cat terminal velocity," and had Neil deGrasse Tyson on as a guest to dispute the study based on that it was working from a biased sample. That is to say, the study would have a disproportionately high number of cases where cats fell from heights of X feet, yet sustained non-life threatening injuries, and then were brought to vets by their panicked owners to get them checked out. The vets only have those cats that owners actually brought in to document the height from which they fell.
Cats that are obviously dead after falling from any height (whether 2nd story or 30th) are typically not brought in to vets. They're buried.
>> ^messenger:
According to QI, any higher than 7 stories, and a cat's skin will spread out like a wingsuit and it will glide to the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts


Good call. I have the same problem with people who talk about "Surges in violent crime". The instances of violent crime aren't surging, it's merely the reporting of them. A police department can show success against crime merely by making it harder to complain.


Also, while I don't think violent video games CAUSE violence, it is possible you will get fewer reports of violence from people inured of violence, hence the false idea of "violent video games reduce violent acts".

Oh, and I totally laughed out loud at the cat.

Although QI has a ton of fact checkers and are typically correct, there are some problems with the study they quoted. Radiolab discussed the findings of the "cat terminal velocity," and had Neil deGrasse Tyson on as a guest to dispute the study based on that it was working from a biased sample. That is to say, the study would have a disproportionately high number of cases where cats fell from heights of X feet, yet sustained non-life threatening injuries, and then were brought to vets by their panicked owners to get them checked out. The vets only have those cats that owners actually brought in to document the height from which they fell.

Cats that are obviously dead after falling from any height (whether 2nd story or 30th) are typically not brought in to vets. They're buried.

>> ^messenger:

According to QI, any higher than 7 stories, and a cat's skin will spread out like a wingsuit and it will glide to the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts