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PROVIDENCE As the nation grapples with a string of deadly shootings by police including the March 29 shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Chicago Rhode Island lawmakers are grappling with the state s own law for disciplining and weeding out bad cops.
At one end of the debate is freshman Sen. Tiara Mack, posting on Facebook: This has been an incredibly hard week emotionally, physically, mentally. One thing I have learned is that we need to ABOLISH the police. Not reform. Not defund. Abolish.
But other R.I. lawmakers spent close to four hours in the last week debating the right balance.
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A clip from Out of the Ordinary on BBC Radio 4.
We sometimes say people need something “like a hole in the head”, meaning that they really don’t. People who believe in trepanning – making a burr hole in the skull – would beg to differ.
It probably goes without saying that in no way does the BBC encourage making a hole in your head.
Jolyon Jenkins
Dating back to prehistory, the basic idea is that trepanning improves blood circulation and can flush out toxins. It’s also used for expanding consciousness.
One such example of the latter is Joe Mellen, who, in 1960s Amsterdam, was finding his high with marijuana and self-trepanation, encouraged by Dutch LSD enthusiast Bart Hughes and Bart’s girlfriend (later Joe’s wife), Amanda Feilding.