Amanda Knox Speaks Out Tonight with Diane Sawyer
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I will be watching Amanda, giving her fresh eyes and ears and an open-mind.
Check back later for my thoughts!
What do your body parts say about you?
Photo by Amarand Agasi
I am a strong believer that our facial and body features are not randomly created by nature–that each one develops due to influences from different sources (genes, chemicals, hormones, etc) while we are in the womb. I think that is a common belief supported by science, though not deeply understood yet. But I also believe that each of these factors affects not only how we will look, but how we act.
For example, I can tell you that most people with full lips are more compassionate than the average person. Its not 100% predictive as other features can dominate and rule this out, but it is a strong indicator. I have no doubt there will be scientific support for this in the future. Sadly, we are in the infancy stages of understanding the physical/behavioral connection.
Now imagine if we made a deeper correlation. If you have this feature, we know it will cause you this illness.
For example, if you have a crease in your earlobe, you will have a higher risk for heart disease.
Would that surprise you?
It doesn’t surprise me and yes, that is exactly where science is going.
I predict in the future, a doctor will map out our faces as children and will predict our personalities, behavior and high risk illnesses by simply looking at our bodies.
Imagine getting a report back detailing these elements about your child!
Oh how cool it would be to see where the science is in 1000 years!!
Watch these people lie!!
This is a great video. A reporter goes to The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival in Indio, California, and puts a microphone into the faces of attendees and asks them what they think of bands–bands that don’t exist–and watch how quickly people lie!
It’s hilarious.
I bet if we could talk to the reporter, she got the best responses by pushing the microphone up into their face. When she did that, it amped up the pressure and people felt they had to respond, and as you can see many did.
I also think there is social pressure on the younger generation to be “in the know” so they winged it wherever they could to be “hip”….just oops, that backfired!
What clues are they giving off that they are lying?
Thanks, Lynn, for sharing!
Expression of the Day!
Photo by Lorenzo Sernicola (flickr)
I feel like I turned a corner and I’m _________ because I’m feeling so well!!!
I’ll take it!
I’m coming ALIVE!!
Slow and Steady Progress
Just wanted to give an update. I am healing and on the mend, though not cognitively feeling good enough to blog again–hopefully it will be soon. I’m taking it day-by-day.
The photo above is from a medical student who came along into my surgery at University of Chicago. As we were entering the operating room, she snapped this photo for me of the city of Chicago. She said this is the view from the surgical room door. I thought it was a cool picture!