Taliban are between a ROCK and a hard palce

United States special forces have a novel weapon in the fight to expel Taliban from a desolate and war-weary farming community in southern Afghanistan — heavy metal music. When insurgents open fire in Marjah, an armored vehicle wired up to powerful speakers blasts out country, heavy metal and rock music so loudly it can be heard up to a mile away. The play list has been hand-selected to “... off the Taliban”, according to one US special forces officer.
“Taliban hate that music,” said the sergeant involved in covert psychological operations, or “psy-ops”, in the area in Helmand province. "Its motivating Marines as well,” he said. "Although some of the locals complain"

Peace in the 'Beyond'

Dutch prisons are using psychics to give jailed criminals guidance by putting them in touch with their dead relatives. Paul van Bree, a self-styled clairvoyant, has been hired by the Dutch prison service to teach prisoners how to “love themselves”. “I tell them that dead relatives are doing well and that they love them. That brings them peace. Big strong men burst into tears,” he said.
He has claimed that by talking to both the prisoner and the prisoner’s dead parents he can discover key psychological insights to help the prison authorities rehabilitate criminals.

Say the Truth

Scientists have now discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain, which they claim can enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. A team at the University of Zurich carried out an experiment in a brain scanner where the breach of a promise led both to monetary benefits for the promise breaker and to monetary costs for the partner. The study showed that there was increased activity in areas of the brain playing a vital role in processes of emotion and control.
The pattern suggests that breaking a promise triggers an emotional conflict in a promise breaker due to suppression of an honest response.

Carrot Monster

Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, claims she is unable to keep to a healthy diet because she is frightened of vegetables. She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.
Larrieux survives on a diet of meat, potatoes, cereals and an occasional apple but refuses even a single slice of carrot on her dinner plate. "Every time I would see vegetables not just on my plate, but anywhere I would get feelings of panic, start sweating and my heart rate would shoot up.
Treatments for the condition include "psychological re-programming."

Save Scooby-doo

Cartoons should be given movie-style age ratings to protect children from the violence shown in programmes such as Scooby Doo and Batman, a child safety expert has warned. A senior lecturer at Lincoln University, USA, said that risky behavior which would normally lead to injury is rarely shown to have negative consequences in cartoons. She claims to have found evidence that there children who watch violent programmes are more likely to engage in risky behavior and injure themselves. Among the programmes she deemed to contain the most risky behavior were Scooby-Doo, Batman, X-Men and Ben 10.
There have been some protests among children against this but they have failed to bring any change as thet are very localised, being limited to households and neighborhoods.