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How To Make People Feel Comfortable In Front Of A Camera (With Science)
Video: Many people, even those who are usually confident and outgoing, can shrink into themselves in front of a camera. In this video, headshot photographer Peter Hurley teams up with psychologist Anna Rowley to explain how you can overcome that problem.
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The Guy Who Patented The Ouija Board Has A Oujia Board Gravestone
If you’re really serious about communicating with the dead, one would guess you’d get the best reception with a Ouija board that’s conveniently installed in a cemetery. This is the headstone of Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija board, the beloved game that’s entertained and terrified people for over a century. Can you visit this…
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Cool Video Illustrates How Much Shanghai Has Changed Over The Years
Video: Over the past thirty years, few cities have undergone the transformation that Shanghai has. It went from a vertically challenged city filled with greenery to mutant New York on speed and steroids. Claire and Max illustrate how much has changed by eliminating the current buildings from the skyline and then drawing them in and…
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The Heartwarming Story Of An 11-Year-Old’s New Technological Friend
For most of us, Siri or Google Now (or Cortana, if you swing that way) is a minor help at best, a first-world solution to the first-world problem of not being able to text and drive. But as Judith Newman illustrates today in a heartfelt and heart-warming piece in the New York Times, Apple’s digital…