Are you actually terrible at noticing change?
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Printer Ink Costs More Than Human Blood:
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The Truth About Lie-Detection – What Works And What Doesn’t:
ars do not look down or look to the left. They do not shift from side to side. They don't fidget. Actually, liars often hold themselves still, restraining their movements so that they appear truthful. And liars don't get nervous, because they're sure you believe them. (In comparison, shy, truth-telling introverts often get anxious during a confrontation and thus mistakenly get accused of lying.) The University of Portsmouth's Dr. Alvert Vrij has studied videotapes of police interrogations of murder…
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What sex in marketing really means:
a consumerist.com Over at Ditchwalk today, Mark Barrett points out that sex in mainstream advertising is a tell. There are two things it immediately communicates: that the product is "indistinguishable from its competition," and that it is generic. You don't have to stop appreciating libido-stirring images the next time a sexy ad airs (not that you probably could, anyway). But if you keep Barrett's advice in mind, you may start noticing that some companies are telling you more about their…
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Why you don’t need to worry about dying in a terrorist attack:
a fivethirtyeight.com (Hat tip: Gerry Canavan) ...there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures. These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. That means there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown. This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune. Assuming an average…
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How to make your New Year’s Resolution stick:
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Will your marriage last?
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Two great writing lessons you can learn from… porn:
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