Ekman isolated the wink, you see. In 1976 the Facial Actions Coding System [FACS] was developed by Paul Ekman and colleague Wallace V. Friesen. It featured in their paper for the inaugural issue of Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior, 1(1), pp. 56-75, which was entitled ‘Measuring Facial Movement’. The Facial Action Code was derived from […]
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They simulated the stock picking abilities of ten million monkeys
Random accumulation and simulated monkeys figure quite deliberately in this two-part study (it parallels the recent findings of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning team who won their Ig for showing that promoting people at random can produce better results than promoting by other methods): “An evaluation of alternative equity indices. Part 1: Heuristic and optimised weighting […]
Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare
For an extremely partial read, peruse this document (the complete PDF of which is online): NOTES TOWARDS THE COMPLETE WORKS OF S H A K E S P E A R E BY ELMO [pictured below],GUM,HEATHER,HOLLY, MISTLETOE & ROWAN SULAWESI CRESTED MACAQUES (MACACANIGRA) FROM PAIGNTON ZOO ENVIRONMENTAL PARK (UK) BONUS: Notes about the notes (Thanks […]
Hydration and Water Seem to Be Related
A possible breakthrough in understanding the relation, if any, between hydration and water: “Hydration level is an internal variable for computing motivation to obtain water rewards in monkeys,” Takafumi Minamimoto, Hiroshi Yamada, Yukiko Hori and Tetsuya Suhara [pictured here], Experimental Brain Research, epub 2012.