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POPSWrap Rage Those sealed plastic shells may soon be a thing of the past - and none too soon!
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POPSSeven Cues for Possible Lies
2. Speech Disturbances – When we lie, we force our brain to pretend: that the lie is true, that the truth is a lie and simultaneously remember, that the real truth is that each is the other. Are you confused? So is your brain when you lie. The process of deception taxes our cognitive capability to think efficiently, so when we are lying, we will pause longer and speak slower than normal and often experience speech disturbances that serve as gap fillers. These include, but are not limited to, ah, er, um, ug, hum, etc. You should train yourself to be alert for deception when you hear this kind of verbal cue. 3. Incongruent behavior – When our words and our body language don’t agree, our communication is said to be incongruent. For example, imagine that you ask a salesman if he can assure your delivery will be on time. If he explains how certain he is about it being on time while also shaking his head (as if non-verbally saying “no”), he is incongruent. When this sort of incongruency o
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POPSRobin Williams Impromptu Standup
Williams was then invited to take the stage and the crowd roared. He spent the next ten minutes or so riffing on Stephen Hawking (who spoke at TED earlier in the day from Cambridge, England) and the end of the universe -- which will take place "exactly in one hour," he said, looking at his watch. He joked again about the technical glitch, indicating that although the BBC wasn't working, audience members "with their phones are going, 'I'm getting all of this!'" And it was true. Dozens of people were capturing the stand-up act on their phones. He riffed about a new Apple product called the "iWhy?" and a few seconds later said he had just one question about the British royal family: "All that money and no dental plan," he deadpanned, which got a lot of laughs and a few sympathetic nods toward the BBC presenter sitting behind him (who appeared to have perfectly fine dental hygiene). He didn't spare panelist Brin and Google, noting that if you walk into Google you see everyone in f