Stephen Shankland, a technology journalist, wrote an August 2010 article for CNet.com regarding the development of emotion recognition technology, which would enable computers to detect what the user is feeling in real time. The World Wide Web Consortium (the organization which standardizes many Web technologies) is attempting to standardize and formalize emotional states using a…
Read MoreLie to Me Season 2 Finale “Black & White”
Lie to Me‘s season finale “Black & White” aired September 13, 2010 on FOX. While the episode was decent, it wasn’t great. The plot line involving the death of Cal Lightman’s reporter friend, millionaire Gordon Cook and Councilman Dale Anslinger was all a bit confusing and dry. Perhaps the most powerful moment of the show…
Read MoreSucrose as an Infant Pain Reliever: Do Baby’s Faces Lie?
Have you ever promised a child who just hurt themselves a Popsicle or lollipop if they would just calm down? Did it work? More often than not, you may have found that it did and the child seemed calmer. A new study entitled, Oral sucrose as an analgesic drug for procedural pain in newborn infants,…
Read MoreRoger Clemens 60 Minutes Interview Analyzed
On September 4, 2010 we posted a few videos of Roger Clemens, who was indicted about a month ago on three counts of making false statements, two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. As mentioned previously, the charges of perjury and making false statements stem from a report on doping in…
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