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In 1957, a man named Lawrence Robinson was stopped by Los Angeles police officers who observed needle marks on his arm. He was not caught using drugs. He was not in possession of drugs. He was arrested for being a drug addict, which was a criminal offense under California law at the time. He was convicted and sentenced to ninety days in jail. Five years later, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that convicting a person simply for the status of being addicted to drug

Written By: Addie Zhang The Robot Epidemic, a generation of children pushed to excel in academics and learning, yet failing to develop intrinsic motivation and personal identity. In an era of increasing pressure in preparing for college admissions, children at an early age are told to set aside their own hopes and opinions for a “greater good” that they themselves cannot recognize. Now, this mentality has raised young adults who struggle to find empathy and autonomy, losing p

In 2005, a neuroscientist named James Fallon was studying brain scans of convicted serial killers when he noticed something unusual about one of the scans in his dataset. The pattern of activity was consistent with the others he had been analyzing: reduced function in the orbital cortex and other regions associated with empathy, moral reasoning, and impulse control. The kind of scan, in his own words, that he associated with psychopathy. The scan belonged to him. Fallon had i

In the spring of 1989, a woman was brutally attacked while jogging in Central Park. Within days, five teenagers had been arrested. Within weeks, four of them had confessed on video. The confessions were detailed. They were emotional. They were played for the jury. They were also entirely false. The Central Park Five, as they came to be known, spent between six and thirteen years in prison before DNA evidence identified the actual perpetrator, a convicted rapist named Matias R