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...much more limited. Specifically, the areas involved in visual perception and emotional processing stayed out of play. Because the anorexic patient can scarcely bear to look at herself, Sachdev theorizes, "I think what the brain is trying to do is inhibit the level of processing. It will then distort [the self-image] so what the patient sees is based on preconception rather than on what is really being looked...
...Having cracked the Lonelygirl15 case, Internet sleuths are now turning their attention to another secret identity, that of popular YouTube personality Lonelyboy43, who records himself in darkness and uses a scrambler to distort his voice. Longtime viewers have determined that Lonelyboy43 is most likely 60 years old and based in the Washington, D.C., area...
Albert Einstein suggested that gravity from a massive foreground object could distort and magnify background objects...
Soldiers are trained to kill and doctors to heal. At least that's how we usually understand those two professions. But wars can often distort reality, and the war on terrorism has turned into a test case. An inspiring example is that of Colonel Kelly Faucette, M.D. He recently wrote about caring for a new patient at the intensive-care unit of the 47th Combat Support Hospital in Mosul, Iraq. The patient was a terrorist insurgent, a man who planted hidden roadside bombs to murder civilians and Faucette's fellow soldiers. Faucette wrote in his local paper: "Something inside...
...least at the altar.While 24.3 percent of Korean-American women have white husbands, just 3.9 percent of Korean-American men have white wives, according to Le of UMass-Amherst. Fewer than 0.1 percent have African-American wives, according to Le.Just as media portrayals in the U.S. may distort Asian-American masculinity, images of African-Americans abroad may make it less socially acceptable for Asian Americans to date African Americans.In China, Jimmy Zhao says, “the only black people you’re going to see on TV are in rap videos or other negative images...