Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

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I'm a parent and teach writing. Watching my kids adopt new slang gives me a window into how expressions go viral, burn out, ...

Things went on until three in the morning. The child, arriving in the world at 11:55 P.M., bathed, photographed, placed in the young mother’s arms, still counts as a Sunday child. At this point the ...

At the 52nd annual Saturn Awards, Nicolas Cage made it clear that he is strongly against the use of AI in acting. After winning Best Actor for ‘Dream Scenario,’ Cage used his speech to warn about the ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Developers frequently need to process ...

What would you say if you suddenly stubbed your toe on a doorframe? Depending on how much it hurt, you might yelp in pain, unleash a stream of expletives—or utter a very specific exclamation such as ...