Top 10 Violent Crimes Caused by Video Games

Many people are quick to claim that many violent attacks are a result of playing video games, but people are quick to forget that in the past, the same has been said of television, film, and even books. There have been many studies conducted on the relationship between aggression and video games conducted over the past few decades, and many have found that there is a correlation between video games and violence, but any university student will have heard the phrase "Correlation does not equal causation." To put this another way, most cocaine users are likely to smoke. That does not mean that if you smoke, you are going to start using cocaine. FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole believes that blaming video games for violence is counter-productive, taking focus from the real root of the problem. The perpetrators of these seemingly random acts of violence will always have other issues, but people continue to blame video games. Here are ten examples of incidents where video games appear to have resulted in bloodshed. Whether video games are to blame or not is up to you to decide.


Title: Top 10 Violent Crimes Caused by Video Games
Published on May 1, 2014
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Top 10 Cases Of The Media Blowing Everything Out Of Proportion

The difference between perception and reality all depends on the angle sold to you, and whether or not you buy into it. With no other means to see a world beyond how far one can travel, media is crucial to bringing the greater world closer to home. However, when media fails to do that job (or does it too well), what’s created is a world much more exaggerated and black-and-white than is truly the case. Until the world can be represented accurately and moderately, we must continually live in hyperbole. Here are ten instances of the media blowing things out of proportion:


Title: Top 10 Cases Of The Media Blowing Everything Out Of Proportion
Published on Dec 17, 2014
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Top 10 Animals Eaten In Other Countries That Will Surprise You

Americans love their meat, like a whole hell of a lot. But only certain kinds of meat; when news broke that the Department of Agriculture was to approve a horse meat processing plant, people got upset. Yes, slaughterhouse conditions for other common livestock is horrendous, and horses are “companion animals,” but it’s not uncommon for various countries to breed horses for human consumption.

Title: Top 10 Animals Eaten In Other Countries That Will Surprise You
Published on May 19, 2016
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Top 10 Theories about the Lost City of Atlantis

Ever since the famed Greek philosopher Plato first wrote of a fabled continent called Atlantis more than two thousand years ago, scholars have been locked in fierce debate as to whether such a place truly existed. While a few rare individuals have taken Plato’s words seriously, most scoff at the idea that an advanced civilization could vanish as completely as if it had never existed. Such is a bit like imagining an elephant could walk through a snowdrift without leaving footprints, making it easy to ignore the entire subject and write it off as yet another example of New Age pseudo-science or, at best, an fantastic and historically indefensible fable. And this is not an unreasonable position either. After all, Plato described the place as being as large as Libya (an ancient term for North Africa) and Asia combined, making one reasonably confident it should be hard to miss. And yet no one has managed to produce as much as a coral reef that might have marked its ancient shoreline, much less an entire submerged continent. But the search continues and, if anything, appears to be growing in both scale and sophistication until today it has become something of a technological/historical holy grail for the twenty-first century.


Title: Top 10 Theories about the Lost City of Atlantis — TopTenzNet
Published on Feb 1, 2016
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Top 10 Things That Haven’t Changed In 100 Years

No doubt about it, we live in a world of rapid change. Whereas a century ago, our grandparents and great grandparents were still getting around in a horse and buggy, and reading newspapers as their only source of information and entertainment1, today we fly in supersonic transports and get our news and entertainment from the Internet-things that would have been inconceivable 100 years ago.

Title: Top 10 Things That Haven’t Changed In 100 Years
Published on Jun 30, 2016
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Top 10 INSPIRATIONAL Stories About Homeless People

General George S. Patton once said, “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” No one embodies that more than the 10 people on this list. They’re a group of people who were at rock bottom, yet worked hard and eventually became immensely successful. They showed that when things look their worst, the only way left is up.

Title: Top 10 INSPIRATIONAL Stories About Homeless People
Published on May 18, 2016
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Top 10 Awesome Fun Facts About Bears

10. Bears are Really Fast
Bears are extremely fast and brown bears can reach the speed of 30 mph.
The top speed clocked for a bear was 40 mph.
Source: NationalGeographic.com


9. Bears Give Birth While Hibernating
A pregnant bear hibernating delivers its cub while in hibernation.
The tiny cub knows to nurse from its mother the first few months until spring, when mother bear wakes up!

Source: BestFunFacts.com


8. Polar Bears are Often Regarded as Marine Animals
Polar bears have been spotted 200 miles from land.
They find food by following ice flows & tracking the migration of seals.




Source:PolarBearsInternational.org

7. Grizzly Bears Love Eating Moose & Elks
Grizzlies have been blamed in the decline of elk in Yellowstone Park when gray wolves initially blamed.

In Denali National Park and Yellowstone, grizzly bears may kill as much as 51% of the calves born each year.

Source: Alaska.gov

6. Bears Can Eat a Lot of Fish
A Kamchatka brown bear can catch around 90 pounds of fish each day.

The Kamchatka brown bear is the largest bear in Eurasia, weighing up to1433 pounds.
Source: wcsrussia.org

5. Bear Have Great Memories
A grizzly's memory is so sharp that he can remember where they encountered a certain food 10 years earlier.

Bears remember familiar animals for years, recognizing them and identifying their social status.

Source: PBS.org

4. Bears Don't Live Long
The average lifespan of an American black bear in the wild is 18 years.

The record age is 31 years in the wild and 44 years in captivity.
Source: Wikipedia.com

3. There are no Bears in Africa, Australia or Antarctica
Although bears do not currently live in Africa, bear fossils have been found there.

Scientists are unsure why bears do not live in Africa today.
Source: Bears (Amazing Animal Hunters).

2. Pandas are Bears
In the 1970s, it was confirmed that the giant panda was a member of the bear family.

The panda is known for its 'thumb', a modified wrist bone that enables it to grasp bamboo.

Source:eol.org

1. You can Eat Bear for 1 Million Dollars
In 2010, Anar Mammadov, worth millions, ordered a dancing bear be slaughtered and grilled.

The restaurant asked for $1.2 million dollars. Mammadov, whose family is worth hundreds of millions, paid and ate the bear.

Source: azerireport.com


Title: Top 10 Awesome Fun Facts About Bears
Published on May 21, 2014
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Top 10 Birds That Look Photoshopped

So you've probably heard that birds are distant relatives of dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Velociraptor. You also probably heard about that time Kirk Cameron tried to debunk evolution by badly Photoshopping an crocodile's head to a duck's body, much to the amusement of the scientific community as well as the Internet. But truth is stranger than fiction, and 65 million years of evolution are better at making crazy birds than photo manipulation software.

Title: Top 10 Birds That Look Photoshopped
Published on May 9, 2014
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Top 10 Popular Poisons

It used to be that poisoning was the murder method of choice for those cunning villains who wanted to “get away with it.” However, following advances in forensic science, poisoning no longer allows murderers any anonymity. Nowadays, the use of poison is so easily detectable it is comparable to the murderer writing a confession. “And, to think, I could have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for those pesky CSI investigators.”

Title: Top 10 "Popular" Poisons — TopTenzNet
Published on Aug 28, 2015
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Top 10 Most Famous Scientific Theories That Turned out to be Wrong

One of the best aspects of science has always been its readiness to admit when it got something wrong. Theories are constantly being refigured, and new research frequently renders old ideas outdated or incomplete. But this hasn't stopped some discoveries from being hailed as important, game-changing accomplishments a bit prematurely. Even in a field as rigorous and detail-oriented as science, theories get busted, mistakes are made, and hoaxes are perpetrated. The following are ten of the most groundbreaking of these scientific discoveries that turned out to be resting on some questionable data. It is worth noting that most of these concepts are not necessarily "wrong" in the traditional sense; rather, they have been replaced by other theories that are more complete and reliable.

Title: Top 10 Most Famous Scientific Theories That Turned out to be Wrong
Published on Apr 3, 2014
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Top 10 Celebrity Ladies That Men Should Avoid

In business, there is a risk vs. reward model that states that the bigger the risk, the bigger the payout, or inversely, the bigger the bust. But sometimes, the risk is so great, the payout is either unattainable or not worth the investment. With that being said, this is the list of the Top 10 attractive single ladies for men to avoid, because no matter how gorgeous the subject, there is a steep price that goes with that beauty.

Title: Top 10 Celebrity Ladies That Men Should Avoid
Published on Jun 25, 2014
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Top 10 Deadliest Train Disasters in History

Trains are colossal, so whenever they derail or collide, their devastating force becomes painfully clear. A crashing train takes on a life of its own, becoming unmanageable and completely unstoppable. Passengers can do nothing to prevent the carnage from happening and are often tossed around inside the carriages, breaking limbs and suffering internal injuries.

Title: Top 10 Deadliest Train Disasters in History
Published on Jun 13, 2014
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