Dash Cam Facial Expressions

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Here is a fascinating study of young drivers and the facial expressions they make while driving. Watch them drive and face some seriously close calls.

What is surprising is their facial expressions seem muted considering the situation.

I hear Dr. Drew Pinsky in my head saying that young people under the age of 25 haven’t developed fully in the brain, and therefore don’t make good decisions.

Here is a research article that talks specifically about this. In it, they say, “The frontal lobe, tasked with decision making, planning, judgement, expression of emotions and impulse control may not be fully mature until the mid-20s.”

That may explain it…

Bikram Choundhury and Hot Yoga

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Bikram Choundhury is the founder of the well known “hot yoga”, and considered a guru by many who practice his teachings of yoga in hot rooms of 104-105 degrees.

Six separate civil lawsuits have been filed against him alleging rape or sexual assault.

Essentially, six women, who either attended his yoga classes, or who paid Bikram thousands of dollars to train under him to open their own training facilities are going after Bikram.

When I watch Bikram, I do not believe him at all. I see a very arrogant man, who couldn’t portray a more false sense of himself in his interview with CNN.

He puts on all these fake smiles that are very transparent in an attempt to garner sympathy that he is a nice guy, when his arrogance unveils he is anything but nice with defined crystal clarity.

You can also see him think as he talks, speak in present about supposed past actions, and says things that are flat out contradictory to each other.

Bikram’s arrogance is so over the top he is even willing to brag and boast about how great he thinks he is, and its nauseating.

He says, “Lots of students of mine, they commit suicide because I will not have sex with them.”

Yeah, right.

He truly has no understanding of women at all to say so many of the things that he has said. He is so over-the-top ego-centric that he doesn’t realize that what he reveals with his arrogance is the exact trait that people need to fear in another human being.

Yet ironically, he thinks if he smiles, he will win people over, and that’s because fake smiles have fooled people for centuries and obviously worked for him for quite some time.

When I watch Sarah Baughn, I believe her.  See a woman who is frustrated and hurt about what happened to her and wants to get her message out to stop Bikram, and with good reason.

May justice prevail even if it only happens in civil court.

 

 

Expression of the Day (4-1-15)

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What information can you glean from this facial expression?

I will respond in the coming days with my thoughts.

Amanda Knox Speaks Out

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The first words out of my mouth after hearing Amanda Knox speak are “WOW”.

I am utterly stunned at her responses, but Amanda has not fit the part that she has portrayed from day one, and this is just another instance.

Imagine you were wrongly accused, locked up for several years, supposedly hit by authorities, had to endure multiple trials of all lies, and finally, you were set free.

Would you feel “gratitude” after having to suffer for years and be looked at as a murderer due to an atrocious foreign injustice??

I don’t think so.

I watched Amanda and looked for any signs of pain for all the injustices she supposedly endured, and there are none. She didn’t have it when she first arrived home from her Italian prison, either. It was oddly and always missing.

Amanda only stressed when she tried to get people to believe her.

Amanda is so relieved, so free of any pain to support that she suffered the injustices she wants us to believe.

If Amanda was guilty, however, her behavior makes total sense.

I can understand “relief” that they finally got it “right” if one were innocent, but we don’t see relief. We see GRATITUDE!

And if you notice her mom is the only one that thinks of the word “right” — not Amanda, oddly. I would think that is the first thing she would think of if she were a victim in this case, but she doesn’t.

Furthermore, when Amanda talks of Meredith, there is no sadness to support her sympathy for Meredith. There are no oblique eyebrows whatsoever. No pain for Meredith at all. She works hard to try to find that place and fails.

And at the end, Amanda says she is the “lucky one”.

How many wrongly accused people have you heard feel they are the “lucky one”?

Its pure insanity!!

But yes, Amanda, you were one of the lucky ones. You were able to walk when I don’t believe you should have…

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