Month: May 2011

That should make it a whole lot easier!

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Every high school classroom holds a few slack-jawed students. One British teen, however, unintentionally took the term to a new level.

Holly Thompson, 17, of Kingsthorpe, Northampton, was in the middle of a particularly enthralling class on politics when she reacted to the subject matter like many other students would — she yawned. But what happened next wasn’t so typical. Her trap wouldn’t shut, making her look like an anime character in a state of shock.

This anecdote prompted three Cornell researchers to reopen a “long and sordid” history of research and debate about whether we can determine who is a criminal by looking at his face.

Their finding: We can. Read more…

Death metal vocalist Olle Ekman (Deals death/Volturyon) warming up in the studio.

Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I was probably going to die soon. I knew I was supposed to slow down, but I’m vain. I missed my old body and wanted to be able to strut across the beach, turning heads.

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