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Ashes Heroes No 47: Richie Benaud Similar
Continuing our weekly series of essays on the men who shaped the Ashes. This week it is one of Australia's finest captains who perhaps became more famous as the voice of cricket "Morning everyone." As much as the cuckoo is...Feed: Line and Length - Times Online...
How con-men make their faces look trustworthy Similar
Drake Bennett of the Boston Globe wrote an article on the various ways con men gain their marks' trust, including body language, verbal language, and facial expressions. When deciding who to trust, the research suggests, people use shortcuts. For example, they look at faces. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot. By studying people's reactions to a range of artificially-generated faces, Oosterhof and Todorov were able to identify a ...Feed: shgのRSSリーダー/受信...
Beleaguered U.S. goalie Hope Solo has her day in the sun Similar
By Scott Fowler Charlotte Observer BEIJING - Hope Solo has a surname that suits her. The U.S. women's soccer goalie flies solo. Her position is solitary by nature. Her blunt comments less than a year ago got her ostracized by her own teammates. And yet there she was Thursday night in China, smack in the middle of the U.S. squad, holding up her gold medal and laughing with her teammates as photographers snapped off one frame after another. Solo had just shut down high-powered Brazil for 120 minutes as the U.S. won the championship game in overtime 1-0. Solo had implied she would do something th...Feed: Projo Sports Blog
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