Word: pokes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...friends on the nerdy Twitter, the dorky-�litist Doostang and the Eurotrashy hi5. You message me and comment about me and write on my walls and dedicate songs to me and invite me to join groups. More than once you have taken it upon yourself to poke...
...noise rose above the din. “Woohoo!” The Pillsbury Doughboy stood in front of the General Mills (GM) table , instantly recognizable in its white chef’s hat and expansive stomach—sure enough, the Doughboy responded to FM’s poke with a squeal of irrepressible glee. Emily S. High ’06, a marketing associate at GM, stood calmly by while the Doughboy began shimmying its body from side to side. “It’s definitely drawn a lot of people to our booth...
...Stoll wrote in his review that the authors’ command of the relevant facts is “shaky” and that “anti-Semitism manages to poke through” in the book...
...ready to see yourself in a new light. Two papers released this week by the journal Science describe what seem to be the first lab-induced out-of-body experiences in healthy people. Using goggles hooked up to video cameras, and sticks to poke and stroke, researchers subjected study participants to a variety of visual and physical cues to confuse their brain about their body's location. Sound a bit impractical? Consider, then, how the studies relate to humankind's most enduring question: what makes us ourselves in the first place? "I'm not really interested in out-of-body...
...wore goggles hooked up to cameras planted behind them, so that participants had a view of their own backs. Then they were physically stimulated in ways that would enhance or reduce the feeling that their selves were located outside their bodies. For his paper, Ehrsson used a stick to poke the chest of each participant (out of view of the person being poked) while also poking the area below the camera where a chest would have been (which the person could see through the goggles). Sure enough, the participants reported that it felt like their vantage point was exactly...