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Nov 8 / Sidney de Koning

Play Day

Today I had, what I call, a ‘play day’. Days where I read up on technology, watch videos and research stuff. Here’s what i’m sharing with you;

Lately i’ve been hooked on a new series called ‘Lie to Me’. Its about a team of deception experts solving cases. It’s entirely based on body language, NLP and microexpressions. Just my cup of tea :)

So, Microexpressions. What are they and how do you learn about them?
Wired magazine has a realy good article about Microexpressions

I did a little reaserch and found that two scientists Dr. Paul Ekman and David Matsumoto have created a M.E training tool. You can find that here.

Here are also som other facial expression / lie detector tests;
Lightman Tests/
How to detect microexpresions
Facial Expressions Test

Facial Action Coding System

Some other things i found during my play day were:
Gurus; Internet tv show by Blue Shots TV – Internet in the Netherlands

Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti:

Mister Harder is an internet / technology consultancy agency in Amsterdam and every thursday he presents ‘whisper 9.A.M, a 5 minute report about what is going in in the internet world .

And ofcourse the Top 10 TEDTalks of all time;
1. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My stroke of insight”
2. Jeff Han: “Touchscreen demo foreshadows the iPhone”
3. David Gallo: “Underwater astonishments”
4. Blaise Aguera y Arcas: “Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo”
5. Arthur Benjamin: “Lightning calculation and other ‘Mathemagic’”
6. Sir Ken Robinson: “Do schools kill creativity?”
7. Hans Rosling: “The best stats you’ve ever seen”
8. Tony Robbins: “Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better”
9. Al Gore: “15 ways to avert a climate crisis”
10. Johnny Lee: “Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote”

The many perils of overstudying math:

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