Beating Bullying with Body Language

School has already started for many students and with so many pre-teen and teenage kids already in or starting school, anti bullying campaigns have begun. No one likes to be bullied and in our socially aware and interactive society, bullying is becoming taboo.  Anti-bullying campaigns across the nation are hard at work trying to keep…

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Past Blog: Disgust & Disease

Can the emotion of disgust help us stay healthy? Recent articles from Metro.com (uk) and SF Gate suggests that it very well can. It is scientifically proven that disgust is one of the seven basic universal facial expressions of emotion, meaning it is expressed in the same manner, on the face, across cultures. Metro reports…

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The Hardest Lies to Spot?

Janine Driver aka “The Human Lie Detector” recently appeared on the Dr. Drew show in regards to Andrea Sneiderman’s trial. Sneiderman was charged with her husband’s murder.  He was shot and killed by her boss, but she has plead not guilty to the 16 charges that were filed against her. Since then the murder and…

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Freaky Facial Expressions

The realism of robotic facial features is growing at an exponential pace.  Huff Post Science has reported on a very “interesting” way to control an android’s face. Researchers at the University of the West of England in Bristol programmed the robotic face, in the video below, to respond to electrical signals produced by slime mold,…

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