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here’s some strange research that will help guide you in the selection of your next alias …it turns out that whether people find you ‘hot or not’ might depend on vowel placement within your name….an mit researcher did a study “examining how your name affects how attractive you are perceived”…her findings showed

those of you who know me well are aware that for years i’ve suffered from a rare disorder that continues to confound medical specialists the world over - amnesiatic bulimia…this is a rare condition in which i binge but then forget to make myself throw up (apparently common as men enter their thirties and confront the burden of metabolic changes but lack the attention span required to mitigate such risks effectively)…what i’ve now realized is that my research brethren are at risk as well - due to a strikingly similar professional plague: trying to

there was a very memorable article in competitive intelligence magazine this summer by nancy potter from bennion-robertson…this 3-pager (”detecting deception - verifying veracity” v7, number 3) examined a list of items related to how our eyes tell lies…this is some seriously interesting stuff, so for those of you with the attention span of a budgie, [...]

okay, so i’m reading this piece in new scientist (i know, i know, that’s a bit geeky) and there’s this recap of a huge 2003 study at columbia university demonstrating the statistical validity (sorta) regarding the “six degrees of separation” theory…basically, you can now allay social status anxiety by comfortably disclosing to people that you’re [...]

in an interesting study of lying behavior conducted by (probably underpaid) cornell university researchers, volunteers tracked all instant messages, telephone calls, emails and face-to-face contact over a period of circa one month within a group of student volunteers, average age of 21, 28 total participants (hey, these students received credit for this - those are [...]