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94Test How Micro expressions Betray Our Emotions
I've been watching the new-ish Fox show Lie to Me with real interest: based on the findings of Dr. Paul Ekman (who trained as a clinical psychologist and worked until 2004 at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute), the TV show...
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89Five Famous Fictional Places I'd Love To Visit
Ever read about a location that you know doesn't exist, but that would be great to visit? I'd love a house like Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit . Or have you ever seen a place in a movie or on TV that you'd really love to see for real? I thought...
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86Famous First Sentences: Pride and Prejudice
One of the most famous opening sentences in Western Literature is the crisply arch first statement in Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice (1813): It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
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82Dealing With Invisible Disability: But You Look Well!
I'm glad I look well! I'm happy and well-adjusted. I'm enjoying retirement, and am making plans to travel, write, enjoy life, and stay happy. However, I am too young to have retired in the traditional manner, and people assume that I must be...
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83Why do women find men in uniform so attractive?
Why does the sight of a clean-cut man in a dress uniform look appealing? (I'm sure we can all agree that no one really likes to see a man in combat gear -- unless he's coming home safely, that is.) There is something about the presence of a...
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82Stuff Made of Silver
I'm a bit of a magpie. I like shiny things, and I suspect I'm not alone -- the glint of silver has been hypnotizing people for millennia; more abundant and useful than gold, silver has been hoarded and admired by kings and paupers alike. As coin,...
31 comments81Why Poetry Analysis Matters: Carolyn Forche's The Colonel
I'm always impressed with the impact poetry can have on kids who are sure they won't like it, ever, and any particular poem you ask them to read in class least of all. I always enjoy seeing them dismiss their former reticence as irrelevant (which...
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81Why I'd like to Live at a Medieval Monastery
But let's set aside the fact that I'm female, not even Catholic, and it's the twenty-first century, and consider why a medieval (rather than a modern) European monastery would be an ideal location to live -- nowadays. And with or without the...
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81Smells Good! Aromatherapy Does Not Need to Be New-Fangled, New Age, or Expensive
freefoto.com Ever lived near a bakery? Boy, does bread smell good as it comes out of the oven. Just the mere thought of the smell of freshly baked bread makes me smile; it is powerful stuff, indeed. Or have you ever lived near stables, an...
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81There Is No Such Thing As Money
I received a letter yesterday from VeryLargeBank refusing to transfer a balance to a different Very-Large-Credit-Card account. The reason given perplexed me: "you cannot transfer to pay off another...
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