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OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Heckler Sports, the first comprehensive all sports social network, makes it easier than ever before for NFL fans to get in on the opening Monday night football game action whether they are in the stands or watching from the couch. Legendary wide receiver Tim Brown will be at the Oakland Coliseum live heckling from his suite and engaging with fans from all over the country. Heckler Sports is not just another sports site, its...
Creating focused and persuasive PowerPoint slides is a notoriously tedious process. To make slide creation faster, more flexible and simple, SlideCrafters announced today its new PowerPoint Starter Pack containing over 275 customizable PowerPoint diagrams. Boston, MA (PRWEB) September 04, 2012 Does PowerPoint really help us deliver our messages more effectively? SlideCrafters was created to ensure the answer is yes. “Our mission is to provide presenters with the tools to quickly...
John Neumann for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online If you are not a fan of opera music, you may have already assumed the similarities of a classic music form and the shrieks of helium-huffing monkeys. Researchers in Japan however, have released a study detailing similarities between such primates, gibbons in particular, and professional soprano singers. A gibbon’s song is acoustically unique among primates, with a melody which can be heard over two miles away. Wild gibbons use their...
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Heckler Sports, the first comprehensive all sports social network that also allows fans to heckle one another in real-time, today announced a partnership with Remington Park, giving horse racing fans everywhere a new way to interact with each other at the track, from the couch, or wherever they are. Remington Park is a racetrack and casino located in Oklahoma City. Through this partnership, fans of Remington Park and horse racing can...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Smiling and laughing is said to be contagious among people. Smiling could possibly even have a positive effect on the body. Psychological scientists Tara Kraft and Sarah Pressman from the University of Kansas recently looked at the possible benefits of smiling. In general, positive feelings can make people smile but the researchers wanted to investigate whether the action of smiling led to more positive emotions. The findings are...
A newly released book titled 'mBraining: Using your multiple brains to do cool stuff' uncovers the latest neuroscience research on the heart brain and gut brain and coaches readers in powerful new techniques to communicate with and align their multiple brains (head, heart and gut). The book introduces the new field of mBIT (multiple Brain Integration Techniques) and takes the behavioral technology of NLP to new levels. Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) May 06, 2012 ‘mBraining: Using...
Braco, Croatian Healer, visits San Francisco April 22-25, 2012 providing opportunity for skeptics and believers alike to test these healing experiences. Healed and Helped individuals are interviewed on Dr. Carol Francis Talk Radio Show 4-18-2012. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 19, 2012 Braco Gazing sessions are extending from San Francisco to Arizona, New York, Maryland and Florida over the next 40 days. The curious, skeptics, and followers can experience these gazing sessions in...
[ Watch the Video ] When it comes to communication, sometimes it's our body language that says the most--especially when it comes to our eyes. "It turns out that gaze tells us all sorts of things about attention, about mental states, about roles in conversations," says Bilge Mutlu, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mutlu knows a thing or two about the psychology of body language. He bills himself as a human-computer interaction specialist. Support from the...
Consumers who are having trouble making decisions can benefit from creating some psychological—or physical—distance, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. "Except for habitual purchases, consumers do not always have an easy time deciding, for example, what cereal to buy, where to send their children to school, or where to take their family for vacation," write authors Manoj Thomas (Cornell University) and Claire I. Tsai (University of Toronto). "Cognitive...
Researchers at UC Berkeley have determined that water cooler chatter and idle office tattling can have stress-relieving benefits, provided it is the correct sort of gossip that is helpful to others and not demeaning. A study using four experimental settings led to constructive outcomes using “pro-social” gossip to describe people warning about deceitful behavior observed in others. This is different from the type of hushed chatter we do when we discuss the bad behavior of celebrities...
