Money DOES Buy Happiness?

In a recent blog post, we explored research out of Princeton University that suggested that income does affect a person’s overall satisfaction with life, but seems to have little effect on a person’s emotional well-being, which reflects everyday life experiences. Now a new study out of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, led…

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Future Legacies

What legacy will you leave behind for your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren?  Well, if you’re anything like the average family, your family tree might only go back three or four generations.  Many memories of our great, great, great grandparents are only pictures and fragmented stories from our close relative’s memories. They do say…

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Dr. David Matsumoto Academy of Art Interview

Dr. Matsumoto recently sat down with photographer Kris Davidson for an interview at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco California. Produced for an MFA level documentary photography course, Dr. Matsumoto shares valuable insights on the potential of a photograph to serve as a reliable document of truth. Documentary photography — as the very…

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MotionScan Technology Comes to Video Games

Photo courtesy of RockstarGames.com Gamers, get excited: Rockstar Games is coming out with L.A. Noire, a detective mystery game that incorporates the reading of facial expressions into its storyline! The game is set in 1940s Los Angeles. Playing as Detective Cole Phelps, gamers will get to interrogate suspects and investigate crime scenes in order to…

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