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· Bryan Ke
PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Breaks YouTube Record With 3 Billion Views
Calling PSY’s “Gangnam Style” a big hit would be a huge understatement. Five years since it dominated the internet, the catchy, massive hit single still remains relevant in the hearts of netizens everywhere. The Korean pop song recently broke another milestone; on November 25,…
· Ryan General
Vietnamese-American Student Carrying a Pen Was Fatally Shot Twice in The Back, Autopsy Reveals
Tommy Le, the “bubbly” Vietnamese American kid who was killed by a King County sheriff’s deputy, was apparently shot twice in the back and a third time in the back of his hand, based on the autopsy results released by his family. According to the family’s lawyer, Jeffery…
· Heather Johnson Yu
PSY’s Secret Message UNCOVERED in His Music After All These Years
Psy, Psy, Psy…thought you could fool us, didn’t you? Thought you were sneaky, didn’t you?
· Ryan General
PSY Finally Reveals How He Felt After ‘Gangnam Style’s’ Crazy Success
“Gangnam Style” was the phenomenon that took the world by surprise back in 2012, making South Korean singer PSY a household name and a multi-millionaire. However, he recently revealed in an interview that the global fame the massive viral hit brought him was also the most…
· Carl Samson
Psychologist Argues Chinese People Think Like 6-Month-Old Infants
A psychologist has argued that most Chinese people have the mental age of a six-month-old and never got out of what Sigmund Freud called the oral stage in his psychosexual theory of development. The oral stage is the first of Freud’s five stages, where the mouth serves as the…
· King Malleta
Japanese Psychic Ordered to Pay $850,000 to Client She Forced into Sex Work
A fortune teller has been ordered to pay a massive amount of money to a female client after she forced her to become a sex worker. Fortune telling is something you shouldn’t really take seriously as there is no strong basis for such predictions, but while other people do it for…
· Ryan General
Beloved Chinese Psychology Professor Stabbed to Death By USC Student
A beloved Chinese psychology professor at the University of Southern California was stabbed to death by a student following an alleged “personal dispute” within the university campus on Friday afternoon. The suspect, 28-year-old brain and cognitive science student David Jonathan…
· Ryan General
Woman Claims She Was Raped By a Pokémon, Husband Urges Her to Seek Psychiatric Help
A young married woman from Russia filed a formal complaint to the local police after she was allegedly raped by a Pokémon. The assault, according to the unnamed victim, happened inside her room in her apartment in Moscow. Police said the complainant fell asleep while playing…
· Editorial Staff
An Alarming Number of Hong Kong Teens are Seeking Psychiatric Help, According to Report
An increasing number of young people in Hong Kong are seeking treatment for psychiatric problems, according to local public hospital records. There were a total of 4,200 mental health patients aged between 15 and 17 in 2015, a 45% increase from 2010. Also in 2015, there were…
· Laura Hospes
Suicidal 20-Year-Old Photographer Captures Life Inside a Psychiatric Ward to Recover
I was 20, studying photography and, as they say, living life the fullest. But that was not the real me.
· Riley Schatzle
Psychology Professor Gives the Most Evil Extra Credit Problem to His Students
Dylan Selterman, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland, has been assigning the same extra credit problem on his final exam since 2008 — only one class has ever answered correctly. The prompt reads:
· Max Chang
Psychology Study Exposes a Scary Truth About People Who Are Nice All the Time
A new psychology study published this month in the Journal of Personality has revealed a dark truth about the nicest and friendliest people in our society- they are probably more capable of doing the most horrific things if ordered to. Stanley Milgram, a pioneer in social…
· Ryan General
Australian Molester Sentenced to Caning, 11 Months in Prison in Singapore
An Australian man was sentenced to an 11-month prison sentence in Singapore for molesting two women in separate incidents. Wade James Burridge, 34, was convicted of two charges of outrage of modesty for victimizing the two women in a span of just two hours, according to the…
· Carl Samson
Meet the World’s Youngest Queen
The world’s youngest living queen hails from the Kingdom of Bhutan. She is 27-year-old Jetsun Pema, who took the throne in October 2011.
· Carl Samson
Japan is Still Forcing Transgender People to Get Sterilized
While parts of Japan made breakthroughs for the LGBT+ community in recent years, the country continues to apply a law that requires transgender people to undergo sterilization before they can legally change their gender. The rule is part of Japan’s Law 111 of 2003, which also…
· Carl Samson
Chinese Study Sprays Oxytocin Up Gay Men’s Noses, Calls ‘Male Homosexual’ a Disease
In an attempt to understand how it affects sexual orientation, a team of researchers in China’s Zhejiang University have been spraying oxytocin up the noses of homosexual men in the last two years. The research led by psychiatrist Hu Shaohua started in October 2015 with 20…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Family of Burmese Woman Found Hanged, Bound and Gagged Files Lawsuit After Cops Claim ‘Suicide’
The family of Rebecca Zahau, also known as Rebecca Nalepa, is moving forward with a civil suit regarding her death in 2011. Zahau, who was born in Myanmar (then Burma), had been dating Medicis Pharmaceutical CEO Jonah Shacknai; the pair lived together with his son, Max Shacknai.…
· Ryan General
Chinese Patients Suffering From Serious Mental Illness Rising at Alarming Rate
More and more people in China are being diagnosed with serious mental health issues, recent government data has revealed. According to the National Health and Family Planning Commission, serious mental illnesses affected 5.4 million Chinese people by the end of 2016, with 75% of…
· Carl Samson
Family of Eurasian Teen Brutally Raped and Murdered in Paraguay Seeks Help From FBI
The family of an American teen who was raped, tortured, and murdered in Paraguay is now demanding the involvement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to speed up probe in the case that first shook the South American country two years ago. Luis Alejandro Villamayor,…
· Ryan General
‘Star Wars Battlefront 2’ Could Now Face Legal Trouble for Their ‘Predatory’ Loot Boxes
EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II will go down in video game history as the final straw that led to one Asian American politician taking a stand against microtransactions and loot boxes, the type of in-game monetization typically found in free-to-play mobile gaming but now applied…