Neil Postman

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Everyday, as I read articles and shake my head at the increasingly out-of-touch reporting that passes for news, I yearn for something that I can't put my finger on. I read about technologies that I know we don't need, knowing full well that they will be bestsellers. I know that the disasters that are happening in the world will not wake us up, they will only cause us to manufacture new excuses. I know that television will not clean itself up, and the news will not return to a more civil tone. Yet I still expect people to figure it all out, and demand better of their media. I expect people to reject the worldview thrust upon us by the powerful elite. I expect us all to realize that we're living in an increasingly unreal world. After all, Neil Postman was talking about this decades ago, as was McLuhan before him. So I scrub my brain with a few Postman quotes, and return to my blogs...

The 43 Facial Muscles That Reveal

The 43 Facial Muscles That Reveal

Interesting interview with a Dr. Paul Ekman talking about the connection between emotions and facial expressions, especially the implications for controlling emotions by paying attention to your face. For example, by smiling you can make yourself feel happy.

Clearly a two-way connection exists between expressions and emotions, and likely other mental states as well, such as attention or vigilance. You could probably develop therapies to counter anxiety and depression based on facial muscle exercises, massage and stretching.

Nothing relaxes like a good scalp massage......

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