Lockdowns Destroyed Our Human Energy Exchange Economy and I Want it Back

My husband and I went to a comedy club with friends a few weeks ago. I was afraid to go - would the comedians be funny? Or would we be sitting...

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Mirrors – A Short History

"Man wishes to see himself because he is vain, and he's afraid to see himself since, being vain, he cannot tolerate the sight of his flaws." Pierre Nicole, Jansenist...

Beauty Archetypes: Tattooed Ladies (Part One)

Tattooed Ladies! Even though we missed the circus sideshows that ran from the 1800's well into the twentieth century, the name itself conjures up images of exotic lives, lived...

Do Facial Expressions Rule Emotions? My One-Woman Experiment in the Field, Plus How Botox Could Help Depression

How do our faces convey emotion? Conventional thinking tells us that we smile because something made us happy, or we frown because we're annoyed - that our faces move...

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