Music & Our Emotions

Spotify is a music streaming service (much like Pandora) that provides digital rights management-restricted content from record labels to the greater public. With the inception of the mobile phone, specifically the iPhone (and iPods), music had become a more intrinsic part of  our lives. Music can have powerful effects on our emotions and with today’s…

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Fastest Facial Recognition System in the UK

Engaget.com reports on the most watched country in the world: Britain.  Leicestershire police officers are the first in the UK to test NEC’s NeoFace, a face recognition software that is being hailed as the fastest and most accurate in the world (NeoFace ranks number one in independent face matching speed and accuracy tests). The facial…

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Cultural Problems in the Workplace

Learning to identify cultural problems in your workplace can help boost your happiness with your job. HueWire.com reports on the 10 signs that there is culture trouble in the workplace and they’re not talking about employee’s ethnic background. Rather they discuss the importance of how employees and employers work together and the overall cohesiveness of…

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Cherry Trees & Honesty

How do we get our children to have moral integrity and tell the truth, at least when it really matters?  Most of us have a hard time telling the truth ourselves, let alone teaching a child the intricacies of truth telling and the importance of  being honest. Kang Lee, a professor of human development and…

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