Comparing Apple to Apples

Here’s a comparison of one of my favorite companies for computers and gadget stuff to one of my favorite fruits.

Created by: MBA Online

Is the Minority Report Real?

I’m thinking about committing a crime… and they already know about it!

Created by: Criminology

4 Horrifying Situations Found in Forensic Nursing

Forensic nursing sounds kind of cute, almost like the job consists of wearing a sexy nurse outfit while studying the details of a crime from the safety of a lab… and bending over really far to look closely at blood samples. While that may be somewhat true, there are also plenty of forensic nursing jobs which involve braving the scene of the crime and permeating every dangerous corner of it to collect the tiniest bits of forensic and physical evidence. There’s also the aspect of dealing with victims, dead and alive, who have sustained horrific physical injuries. Television never really talks about these things besides to create a poorly mocked up CGI image of fake blood on a clearly living actor’s ‘corpse’ — but real life is a lot more gruesome. The real forensic nursing professionals have less witty banter and don’t drive Hummers, but they do save lives and solve crimes by putting aside all squeamishness and facing the goriest, most daunting of situations to collect evidence needed for closing cases. Here are some nasty, uncomfortable situations found only in forensic nursing.

Forensic Nursing Crime Scene Investigator

The forensic nursing crime scene investigator must brave the grueling task of closely inspecting a crime scene for infinitesimal specks of evidence, collecting them carefully, preserving them just as carefully, organizing the information in a neat little notebook, and bringing it back for inspection. “Evidence” is a clean, technical sounding term… but the reality is a lot more gruesome. Evidence can mean pubic hair stuck to the genitals of a corpse which has been rotting for several weeks. It can mean climbing down treacherous rocks near the ocean to retrieve blood spatter which has spilled down from a murder above. It can also mean pulling fibers or other trace evidence from the mushy mess of a body’s stomped-in, maggot infested skull. These horrific details don’t exactly inspire visions of CSI, which probably gets a lot of kids interested in crime scene investigation via its inaccurate, dumbed down portrayal of forensic nursing. It may be extremely difficult to deal with, but picking through these gruesome scenes is a job essential to solving crimes and putting away heartless murderers.

Forensic Nursing Sexual Assault Examiner

The position of forensic nursing sexual assault examiner is debatably better and worse than that of a forensic nursing crime scene investigator. On the darker side, the forensic nursing sexual assault examiner must deal with live patients who are usually traumatized, hurt, and afraid. It can be exhausting and disheartening to constantly see pained individuals who have been hurt by malicious, evil people — it’s not exactly an inspirational or motivational work poster any way you picture it. On the brighter side, it may be easier for some to work with the living than examine the dead in various stages of decomposition and in all sorts of gory situations. It’s also interesting to think about the difference between helping a murder victim who is dead and helping a rape victim who is still living. It must be gratifying to solve a case dealing with either rape or murder, but it must feel rewarding to have a rape victim thank you and go on to live a life with closure in regards to his or her case. Examining children can also be hard because sex abuse against kids is pretty much the most heinous, vile crime imaginable. There’s also the aspect of dealing with people who have sustained terrible injuries from their attackers.

Forensic Nursing for Child and Elderly Abuse

Abuse of a child or elderly individual is so terrible that it makes up an entirely different category of forensic nursing. In fact, the forensic nursing branches dealing with child abuse and dealing with elderly abuse are completely separate from one another, too. Special courses prepare forensic nursing professionals to deal with child and elderly maltreatment and its underlying courses. It’s possible to discover that a child or elderly person has been abused just by examining the way that person reacts when dealing with doctors or other professionals who have to examine them, which may seem threatening to a victim of abuse. It may be especially difficult to deal with children or the elderly who have been sexually abused, especially when examining severe physical injuries on the genitals or other areas on the body.

Testifying in Court

Testifying in court is the least gruesome aspect of a forensic nursing professionals job, but it still makes the list for being difficult and emotionally exhausting. Testifying in court can be particularly disheartening when facing distraught families of both victim and suspect; providing damning forensic nursing testimony for or against any one individual is sure to make at least one party unhappy. It can also be difficult when giving testimony regarding an individual that the forensic nursing professional may feel empathy and sympathy for; the crimes of another may be wrong, but that doesn’t mean that the people locking that person up will feel pleasure doing so — or even should. It can also be emotionally trying to have to repeatedly attend a long, drawn out trial which can last for months or even years. Not a nasty situation in the sense of goriness and direct exposure to horror shows, but definitely something that requires a great deal of emotional and mental strength nonetheless.

Generation Mobile: How Cell Phones Shape the Lives of College Students

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3 Extremely Offbeat Uses for A Marketing Degree

There are a billion jobs that a marketing degree can get you; from head of a marketing team to the PR pawn running a company’s Facebook and Twitter, the corporate ladder of marketing is an extensive one. Advertising, promotions, sales, public relations, blah, blah blah. It isn’t always the most exciting thing in the world, especially when marketing stiff corporate products like Hilton Hotels, some snotty brand of wine or Michael Buble’s upcoming album. If you’re thinking of pursuing a marketing degree but don’t want to get stuck in the annals of modern day slavery, you’re out of luck. You can, however, at least choose a job that involves some sort of creativity or — even better — political activism. If you’ve always wanted to make a statement, stand out, or just be able to express your creativity while being showered with thousand dollar bills, there are some offbeat careers in marketing that may be for you. Here are some interesting, offbeat jobs you can earn with the help of a marketing degree.

DRUGS

Drugs. Everybody loves em. Even the Catholics. Rarely will you come across a person who doesn’t love their drugs. Weed, alcohol, cigarettes, antidepressants, anxiety medication, cocaine, vaccines, even cough syrup and simple headache relieving acetaminophen. With so many drugs to promote, how can you choose? Cocaine is out. So is stuff like meth and heroin (for now…just wait). Promoting alcohol and cigarettes has been done over a billion times; unless you want to think up new scenarios between that really hot girl and guy at the bar, forget it. Moving on to weed. Using your marketing degree to pursue a career promoting weed would actually be culturally significant; America is now hitting weed-puberty, and things are a’changin’. Legalization is sweeping the nation state by state, and legitimate marijuana growing and distributing plants are popping up just as quickly. However, many people still remain vehemently opposed to marijuana legalization, as the actions of crappy police against dispensaries have shown us. Legal, legitimate businesses are still raided and shut down due to the discrepancy between state and federal laws; that is, the state has legalized what the country has not. Therefore, the authorities create counterproductive situations in which time and money is wasted harassing innocent and peaceful business owners. Marketing degree to the rescue! Pot can’t defend itself; some of these businesses not only need promotional expertise from the guy with the marketing degree, but they also need clever, defensive, educational campaigns to intelligently spread the truth about marijuana. It would be nice if people realized that even though Satan probably smokes a ton of weed, there’s not much evil about it (unless you’re feeding it to your baby. Don’t do that).

Feeling evil and disappointed that pot can’t deliver the type of destruction and turmoil you had hoped? Not to worry, there are always behemoth black holes of death like Pfizer, a drug company which literally murders children each year with its experimental vaccines. If you really need a challenge, making them look good may be it.

CELEBRITIES

Everyone knows that celebrities aren’t real people; they’re products! Like any successful product, the celebrity must be aggressively and tactfully marketed. Sometimes, tactfully means ‘tweeting nudes on VMA night’ or ‘releasing a sex tape because no one’s paying attention to me anymore’. Your marketing degree can get you hired by a celebrity, but if you’re fresh out of school, you may have to start with the beneath-the-boardwalk trash like Heidi Montag or Octomom. If you haven’t heard of those two people, it’s because they were marginally famous, mildly attractive women who became famous simply for being incredible attention whores. Marketing that kind of person must be annoying to say the least. Not only do the rabid crowds of celebrity gossip enthusiasts not care about either one, but they’re actually annoyed and tired of even hearing about them. Apply your marketing degree to that! What kind of campaign can save two shallow, vapid women who have done nothing for society but promote materialism and unabashedly express their obsession (mental illness) with fame? Again, not to worry. There are always more interesting, more attractive celebrities who are slowly degrading their letter grades from A to D. Lindsay Lohan would probably be fun to work with — kind of. Besides the exhaustion caused by trying to convince the world she isn’t a drug-addled retard, the perks probably include a ton of free cocaine and alcohol. Go Lindsay! Your marketing degree can also be of use to celebrities who are all fun and no high school drama, like comedians or the host of a children’s television show.

ABORTION CLINICS

Yes, even abortion clinics have a marketing department with qualified degree holding professionals. More abortions! More abortions! No, that’s not right. Marketing an abortion clinic probably isn’t about tempting the young, poverty stricken drug addict to abort her crack baby. It’s most likely an attempt to keep the clinic’s name as clean as possible; those crazy Christians should be coming by with their graphic signs of mutilated babies any minute now. How can you show the public that your abortion clinic is actually pretty nice? You can’t say it outright; it just sounds wrong. You can’t talk about the cushy waiting room or the drugs they give you afterward. Don’t mention the sexy doctors. Instead, it would probably involve promoting the clinic as clean, safe, and discrete. If there’s another clinic across town, you’re in competition. The guy who has just earned his marketing degree might be tempted to pay off the Christians, sending them to the other place. The experienced degree-holder would probably do the same thing, come to think of it. Or maybe that’s just me.

X-Ray Vision: A Look at Objects Ingested and Inserted

Why do people do these things? We may never know but ask any X Ray Technician about their work and you may just have a very interesting conversation.

Created by: XRay Tech

The 100-Year History of the Bra

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Fact: Lobsters Are Whores

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Double Rainbow Pizza

The Double Rainbow meme is one of our favorites in a long time. The Double Rainbow guy has been auto-tuned and remixed, but really, nothing beats how in awe he was in the original.

So, of course I had to share the Double Rainbow video and remixes with my sister and Walter. They loved them and sent me this picture of what they had this for lunch yesterday. Wendy really is a food artist. You might remember some of the awesome things she’s done with bacon.

Proof That Animals Love Music

I have found proof that our animal cousins should be writing music reviews. The following videos show just how much they love music, from playing instruments, singing along to Gwen Stefani, and showing off their Michael Jackson moves.

Nora the piano playing cat

Dog that plays keyboard and sings

Walrus that dances to Michael Jackson

Beatboxing bird

Cockatoo that plays guitar

Parrot who loves ‘death metal’

Parrot that sings Opera

Piano playing horse

Rapping fish

Dancing horse

Tap dancing cow (advert)

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Monkey loves his guitar

Husky sings along to Gwen Stefani

Baby elephant dances and plays harmonica

Animal music news supplied by Claire Stokoe

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