Of course everyone is familiar with the dazzling little sports coupe known as Porsche and its many models: 911 Carrera (how unfortunate), the Boxster,  the Cayman GT4 and on and on. The sports car has nothing to do with most of this blog. It’s a status symbol with an impressive appearance that probably picks up a… Continue reading Porsche History as Hitler’s Henchman

Why on earth would anyone admit to a crime, especially a major crime such as a murder, she or he hadn’t committed? Does this really happen? What sort of personality can be coerced into making a confession about a terrible act he or she hasn’t committed? Sometimes the psychology of police interrogation is very troubling,… Continue reading False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions

A young child’s mind is a fascinating thing. Filled with imagination and easily influenced, a child can believe virtually anything s/he is led to believe, especially by those closet to him/her. I believe this to be a survival mechanism. When a defenceless child cannot reconcile a situation she experiences or witnesses, her mind perceives it… Continue reading The Monster in My House

You’d think that getting struck by lightning even once and living to tell about it would be a miracle. Lightning is an electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (known as intra-cloud lightning or IC lightning), or another cloud,( called CC lightning), or a cloud and the ground, (called… Continue reading And They Say Lightning Only Strikes Once…

Sibling Incest Usually when we speak about incestuous families we tend to think of father-daughter incest. Rarely do we think about mother-son or brother-sister. However these types of sex abuse happen and are probably under-reported, hence the reason this incest isn’t known about as broadly as that of parent-child. There is a plethora of studies… Continue reading Sibling Sexual Abuse a Sordid Secret