http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 09:13:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/12/14/physical-sexual-abuse-documen.html http://boingboing.net/2012/12/14/physical-sexual-abuse-documen.html#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:18:01 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=200443 reports released under a court order to Bloomberg News show that caregivers at a Florida center for brain-injured and "non-neurotypical" adults physically and sexually abused patients, in a systematic and brutal manner. Caregivers "goaded them to fight each other and fondle female employees and in one instance laughed at complaints of mistreatment." At least five patients have died at the center in question, the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation, from alleged abuse or neglect there since 1998. Two patients died in just the last two years. (Bloomberg)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/12/14/physical-sexual-abuse-documen.html/feed 0 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/football-and-neuroscience-jun.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/football-and-neuroscience-jun.html#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 20:44:04 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=158661 an ex-teammate of the NFL star who died this week of a self-inflicted gunshot wound: "Junior played for 20 years. That's five concussions a game, easily. How many in his career then? That's over 1,500 concussions. I know that's startling, but I know it's true. I had over 1,000 in my 15 years. I felt the effects of it. I felt depression going on throughout my divorce. Junior went through it with his divorce." (USA Today via @scanman)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/football-and-neuroscience-jun.html/feed 8