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July 09, 2022

Common Threads of Mass Shooters & Profiting From the Future

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Common Threads of Mass Shooters

In an effort to reduce violence in society, experts have created a database to define the how and why of mass shootings. Jillian Peterson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Hamline University, Director of the Hamline Center for Justice and Law, outlines the four common characteristics she discovered.

Profiting From the Future

Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. Peter H. Diamandis, founder of more than 20 high-tech companies, Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE and Executive Founder of Singularity University, co-author of \"The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives,\" believes that over the next decade, the world will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than in the past hundred years. He cited examples of converging technologies which he expects to transform entertainment, education, healthcare, longevity, business and food.

Empowering Young Girls in the Age of Social Media and #MeToo

Amid todays pressures of the #MeToo movement, gender discrimination and the peer pressures of social media, Atara Twersky, author of the Curlee Girlee book series, explains why it is crucial for parents to encourage young girls to celebrate their differences and lift each other up. She offered suggestions to empower young girls and to teach them that it\'s okay to be different.

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