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May
17
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There is a view that certain emotions are biologically basic. Psychologists support the notion that all…
May
2
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Facial recognition technology is growing rapidly, both in the consumer world and among police. The government in India is working on a plan to biometrically identify each of its more than one billion people.
Mexico is building a data base of fingerprint, eye and face print information of its population. United States officials collect biometric data on international travellers wishing to enter the country.
Researchers are looking at the way we walk, the movement of the human buttocks, and the way we …
Apr
23
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Communications between cultures sometimes get lost in translation because people from different parts of the world don’t use the same facial expressions to…
Apr
11
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People don’t usually go around telling strangers stuff and that’s why you have to ask them a question. Any sort of question, personal, oblique…
Apr
2
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It is the inevitability of death that provides life with a narrative arc and provides moments in that narrative with meaning. Without the specter of death…
Mar
23
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There is an international movement that promotes laughter as a cure for just about any ailment – physical, psychological, or spiritual. It believes that people should laugh far more by…
Mar
15
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he basic function of pain is to draw our attention to the fact that something is wrong. The body is facing some kind of damage. Neuroimaging shows that the distress of pain activates the…
Mar
8
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There is a word for it, ‘coulrophobia’ – a fear of clowns. When we see a clown, the smile is painted on. The face doesn’t move, there is no twinkle in…
Feb
29
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Many linguists believe all human languages derived from a single tongue spoken in East Africa about 50,000 years ago. They have found clues scattered throughout…
Feb
23
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If being insecure is socially undesirable, why is it so common? A number of innovative experiments suggest that a certain amount of…