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Madison Holleran’s online persona depicted the life of a thriving college freshman, filled with friends, family and a love for running track. But behind the social media facade, the student athlete was dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts. On Jan. 17, 2014, Holleran, a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student, leapt off a nine story parking garage in Philadelphia. Holleran’s story
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Dolphins — they’re just like us. According to a study recently published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, bottlenose dolphins cluster into unique social networks, similarly to how humans socialize. While dolphins have been known to form communities based on kinship, food preferences and location within their habitat, the study shows that they also exhibit preferential and avoidance behaviors for
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Hope, 17, says three years ago, she was abducted by someone she met online and forced into prostitution. “It all started because I posted on a social media site that I hated my mother,” she recalls. “A woman messaged me back telling me that I could go stay with her, and we’d go partying. She showed up within the next
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By Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable We all saw it happen this summer. It started with a video of one of your friends dumping a bucket of ice water over his or her head. Then it was two videos. Then it was five. And suddenly, celebrities, politicians, and thought leaders alike were participating in the the ALS Ice
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CHICAGO (AP) — Young adults have a reputation for being connected to one another and disconnected from the news. But a survey has found that mobile devices and social networking are keeping them more engaged with the broader world than previously thought. They want news, they say, though they don’t always aggressively seek it out — perhaps simply happening upon
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