Barack, Benghazi, and Bungles

Melanosis of prostate – Benghazi, Libya

We present the case number 22 of prostatic melanosis in the literature reports. Prostatic melanosis is a very rare, benign lesion characterized by the presence of melanin both in the epithelium of the prostate gland as well as in the stromal dendritic cells, requiring no additional treatment. It constitutes the melanocytic lesions of the prostate together with blue nevus and melanoma.

Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008

On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama [5] replaced Republican George W. Bush [6] as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush?s 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human stem cells [7]. Stem cell research remains a controversial issue in the US. Some individuals consider it immoral to experiment with an embryo because they regard embryos ...

Fertility and race perception predict voter preference for Barack Obama

Research shows that women more positively evaluate targets evincing cues of high male genetic quality as a function of fertility across the menstrual cycle. Recently, a link between fertility and anti-black race bias has also been documented, an effect that is argued to serve a sexual coercion avoidance function. Here we demonstrate that both effects can be operative toward the same male target...

Positive emotions and the social broadening effects of Barack Obama.

Past experiments have demonstrated that the cognitive broadening produced by positive emotions may extend to social contexts. Building on this evidence, we hypothesized that positive emotions triggered by thinking about Barack Obama may broaden and expand people's sense of self to include others. Results from an expressive-writing study demonstrated that African American college students prompt...

Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination