National Geographic’s TV show Brain Games, hosted by Jason Silva, recently had an episode devoted to the brain and its ability to focus. It goes into depth about the human brain’s attention span and has some fun and revealing tests for its viewers “I think the ongoing evolution of human consciousness is the ongoing ability…
Read MoreOur Gestures Often Betray Us
Our gestures often betray us: As much as we try to disguise our intentions or feelings, we project microexpressions: involuntary movements of our face that reveal what we hold deep and try to hide at all costs . Fractions of a second beyond the human eye, but easily caught by cameras because technology is now able…
Read MoreWebcam Watergate
How would you feel if every time you logged onto your personal accounts from your laptop or phone you were giving away valuable personal information you hold dear? Scientists at Cambridge University have shown that a person’s facial expressions could give away their security codes via the webcam on their device. The Inquirer.net noted that with…
Read MorePrimates & Facial Expression Complexity
Primates have been relying on facial expressions to delineate friends from predators for thousands of years and new research purports that increasing group size puts more pressure on the evolution of coloration across different sub-regions of primates’ faces. International Business Times reports on these new findings from biologists from the University of California Los Angeles.…
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