These 40 cars prove the Geneva Motor Show was the greatest in history

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The 2015 Geneva Motor Show is the first major European car show of the year. So we expected the world's premier automakers to bring their A game. But what we saw so exceeded our expectations that we have decided to proclaim this the "Greatest Car Show in Human History"!

Over the top? Nope. The usual scene-stealers — Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche — were completely eclipsed by the bold, groundbreaking, and completely unexpected new cars on show.

After all, this show marks the first appearance of the "megacar."

The 2015 Geneva International Motor Show runs March 5-15 at the Palexpo Arena.

Bentley remained rather low key leading up to the show, announcing only that it would present an updated variant of its trusty Continental GT. Then ...

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... Bentley caught just about everyone by surprise with the introduction of the stunning EXP10 Speed 6 concept coupe.

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Bugatti presented the 450th and final Veyron hypercar produced — dubbed "La Finale."

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The McLaren P1 GTR is an exclusive, $3 million, track-ready version of the company's P1 hypercar.

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McLaren's 675LT supercar also made its world debut. Inspired by the company's 1997 F1 GTR longtail race car, the 675LT will feature an upgraded 3.8-liter V8.

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Just to remind everyone of its technical prowess, McLaren showed off a road-going version of the two-decade-old F1 longtail that's still a match for modern day hypercars.

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Mercedes-AMG kicked off the year in style with the introduction of the GT3 racing version of its new AMG GT sports car.

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Audi showed off the Prologue concept, whose design will serve as the basis for the next generation of Audi cars.

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In addition, Audi unveiled its second-generation 2015 R8 supercar, which will be sold in V10 or ...

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... an electric e-tron version with 280 miles of range.

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Alfa Romeo introduced the much-awaited open-top 4C Spider to the European motoring public ...

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... Ford's presence in Geneva featured the debut of its German-built, 300-horsepower Focus RS and ....

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...the European debut of the new Ford GT supercar.

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One of the brightest stars in Geneva is the Aston Martin Vulcan hypercar. The 800-plus-horsepower V12 track special is the most extreme Aston in company history.

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Then Aston hit us with something from the other end of spectrum — the DBX, an electric 4X4 coupe.

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Fellow English manufacturer Morgan showed off the latest variant of its BMW-powered, retro-chic Aero 8 sports car.

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Though Lotus is not traditionally known for big horsepower, the Evora 400 bucks that reputation with a 400-horsepower supercharged V6 engine.

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The Danish boutique hypercar-maker Zenvo showcased an upgraded version of its 1,100-horsepower ST1.

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Acura/Honda's news-making NSX supercar made its European debut at the show.

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The seductive Infiniti Q60 also made its European debut in Geneva. Armed with a turbocharged V6 engine, the stylish coupe is expected to see production next year.

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Infiniti's presence at the show also featured the world debut of the stylish QX30 crossover.

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Lexus showed up in Geneva with its LF-C2 convertible concept.

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Ferrari's menacing 488 GTB is the replacement for its popular 458 Italia. The new car will be powered by a turbocharged V8 engine. A turbocharged Ferrari!

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The Pininfarina Ferrari Sergio is the production version of the concept car that took Geneva by storm in 2013.

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The Swedish hypercar specialist Koenigsegg shocked the crowd with a 1,500-horsepower Regera hybrid.

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Sadly, all the commotion surrounding the Regera means the 1,160-horsepower Agera RS hypercar has been somewhat overlooked. Now that's quite an achievement!

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Other car-show darlings also made an appearance, such as the incredible Pagani Huayra hypercar and ...

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... Lamborghini's flagship Aventador supercar, which gets another variant — the SuperVeloce or SV. It's the most intense and performance-focused version of the big Lambo we've seen to date.

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No car show is complete without a Porsche. In this case, a race-ready Porsche 911 GT3 RS and ...

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... the hardcore Porsche Cayman GT4.

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There are some offbeat specials at the show as well. Such as the American SCG003 supercar and ...

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... the stunning Peugeot Onyx concept car. Wow! Tres bien!!!

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The EDAG Light Cocoon Concept is truly unlike anything we have seen in recent memory. It features a high-tech-fabric skin wrapped around an advanced skeletal frame with LED lighting mounted under the fabric.

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Germany's Borgward went bust in 1961. But now it has returned with the retro-styled Isabella Concept, whose 1950s-era eponym is the best-known car in the company's history.

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Citroen showed of the otherworldly Divine DS Concept, which features a set of unique suicide-scissor doors.

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Bentley's parent company, Volkswagen, also joined in the on the flurry of automotive hotness with the Sport Coupe Concept GTE. It will eventually become the new VW CC.

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Mercedes-Benz took its insane 6X6 G-wagon, cut off two of its wheels, and voilá — the G500 4X4 Squared is born!

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Speaking of off-roading, a modified 6X6 Land Rover Defender 110, dubbed the Kahn Huntsman, is quite possibly the manliest car of the 2015 show.

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Hyper-luxury Maybach is back with the Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman.

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Not to be outdone, Rolls-Royce presented a bespoke limo, called "Serenity," to the public. Though it may look like an average Phantom ...

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Ghanaian TV host says Jim Iyke is not the father of Nadia Buari’s twins...

e.TV host, Vanessa Gyan claims Jim Iyke is not the father of Nadia Buari’s twins. Photo: Filed Following the controversy that has surrounded the identity of the father of Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari’s twins so far, Vanessa Gyan, who hosts the ‘Late Nite Celebrity Show’ on e.TV, has revealed that Nadia gave birth in a hospital in Atlanta, USA, in the presence of her mother and brother. According to reports, Vanessa claims that Nadia’s fiancé (who is yet to be fully identified) showed up at the hospital later, with the TV host stating that Nigerian actor, Jim Iyke, who was previously engaged to the actress, is not the father of her twins. Another report also states that Nadia and her yet-to-be-identified fiancé attended the same university. While Nadia was giving birth in Atlanta, Jim was reportedly in Canada which does raise doubts as to whether he truly is the father of the newborns. Efforts to reach him or his camp have yielded no fruit as at press time, but we will bring updates as events unfold.... 

Video: AIT’s Controversial Documentary ‘The Real Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu giving a speech in Chatam House in 2011

A controversial documentary currently being aired on Africa Independent Television (AIT) has become the subject of law suits and legal battles between the subject of the documentary Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Daar Communications the owners of AIT.
The documentary titled 'The Real Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu' centres on the person of former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Sponsored by the #GodBlessNigeria group, the documentary x-rays the political profile of Tinubu, from his early days, to his ascension to the Lagos State Government House in Alausa, Ikeja until the present day where he plays a pivotal role in the presidential campaign team of General Muhammadu Buhari, with the rumour mills stating that he, along with Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi are the financial sponsors of the APC presidential train.

Watch the controversial documentary below. Do leave your comments.

PHOTOS: Knife Wielding Activist Attacks US Ambassador To South Korea, Slashes His Face And Wrist

Horrific: The face of the U.S. Ambassador needed 80 stitches after it was slashed open by a man who reportedly yelled 'North Korea and South Korea should be unified'

A knife attack on Thursday morning that injured the U.S. ambassador to South Korea as he attended a breakfast meeting in Seoul is the latest act of political violence in a deeply divided country where some protesters portray their causes as matters of life and death.

The attack which left a gash on  Mark Lippert's face started under his cheekbone and extended diagonally across his cheek toward his jawbone. His arm was also slashed. He received 80 stiches to close the 11-centimeter (4-inch) wound, Chung Nam-sik of Severance Hospital told reporters. Lippert, 42, also had surgery on his arm to repair damage to tendons and nerves and is in stable condition at the hospital.

Purported U.S. interference in Korean affairs appeared to be the main grievance of the man police named as the assailant, Kim Ki-jong, 55, who has a long history of anti-U.S. protests.

"South and North Korea should be reunified," Kim shouted as he slashed Lippert with a 25-centimeter (10-inch) knife, police and witnesses said.

About nine hours after the attack, Lippert posted on his Twitter account that he was "doing well and in great spirits" and would be back "ASAP" to advance the U.S.-South Korean alliance.

The State Department said it could not speculate on a motive at this time, and that South Korean President Park Geun-hye had called Lippert in the hospital to express her condolences.

Kim is well-known among police and activists as one of a hard-core group of protesters willing to use violence to highlight their causes. Such protesters often speak of their actions in terms of a war, of a struggle to the death.

Kim told police that he attacked Lippert to protest U.S.-South Korean military drills that started Monday — exercises that the North has long maintained are preparations for an invasion. Kim said the drills, which Seoul and Washington say are purely defensive, ruined efforts for reconciliation between the two Koreas, officials at Seoul's Jongno police station said in a televised briefing.

North Korea's state-controlled media later crowed that Kim's "knife slashes of justice" were "a deserved punishment on war maniac U.S." and reflected the South Korean people's protests against the U.S. for driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war because of the joint military drills.
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Lippert became ambassador last October and has been a regular presence on social media and in speeches and presentations during his time in Seoul. His wife gave birth here and the couple gave their son a Korean middle name.

He will need treatment at the hospital for the next three or four days and may experience sensory problems in his left hand for several months, said Chung, the hospital official.

Following the attack, President Obama called Ambassador Lippert to check in on his condition. 

'The President called U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Mark Lippert, to tell him that he and his wife Robyn are in his thoughts and prayers, and to wish him the very best for a speedy recovery,' a White House spokesman said in a statement. 

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Bloodied: U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant before a morning lecture in Seoul on Thursday

Weapon: Police found and bagged the knife used by a 'pro-North Korea' activist to carve open Ambassador Lippert's face

Suspect in custody: A 55-year-old man identified as Kim Ki-jong (pictured) was arrested after the attack

Opposition: Kim (pictured) is believed to have shouted his disgust at the joint United States - North Korean military drills that began on Monday

Earlier in the day, Kim was caught on CCTV heading to the event where he attacked the U.S. Ambassador

Suspect in custody: A 55-year-old man identified as Kim Ki-jong (pictured) was arrested after the attack. Police say he shouted opposition to the joint U.S.-South Korean military drills that started on Monday

Crime scene: Lippert's name card is seen on the left side of the table, just above a bowl of porridge or soup tainted with blood

Justin Bieber Cops Called After Party Chicks Get the Boot

Justin Bieber's never-ending 21st birthday party was busted up, temporarily ... when a group of girls who got 86'd from the festivities got pissed off and called Miami Beach PD ... TMZ has learned.

Justin, who's freshly legal to drink ... was hanging with friends at the posh Miami Beach Edition hotel Friday night. Law enforcement sources tell us around 8:50 PM ET cops got a call from the chicks ... who claimed Justin's security kicked them out of his hotel room after some sort of argument.

We're told the ladies were upset because they'd left some things in the room, and couldn't retrieve them.

Cops went to the hotel and escorted the women to Justin's room ... where we're told everything suddenly got smoothed out -- and the girls were actually invited to rejoin the bash.

Funny how that happens when cops show up. Calls to Justin's reps have not been returned yet, but bottom line -- no arrests, no citations.

Back to the party, y'all.

Why these women stayed in the games industry after the worst year ever

At this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a panel of distinguished game developers and critics gathered for a very popular panel, the third annual #1ReasonToBe -- as in, "the number one reason to be" a woman who works in games and technology.

The goal of #1ReasonToBe is to focus on their accomplishments and amazing experiences. 

Last year, the panel reduced the audience to tears before concluding in a standing ovation, and became the talk of the event.  

This year, people lined up before the doors opened, and the crowd filled the large auditorium. 

"I hope to do more to just live, I hope to thrive," says Elizabeth LaPensee on her experiences as a Native American woman in video games. 

It's a common sentiment, lately. The rise of harassment campaigns like the infamous GamerGate scandal makes women scared to make games or work in technology at all, and we hear more and more about women quitting technical jobs over it. Those who stay find themselves unwilling or unable to speak up for fear of losing their jobs, or worse.

"There are many people silenced this year," said panel moderator and game developer Brenda Romero. 

Matt WeinbergerGame developers, designers, and critics discuss their reasons for staying in the industry at GDC 2015.

In a powerful segment called the "Empty Chair," Romero displayed anonymous comments made by people too afraid to speak up publicly, while the room stood completely silent. For example:

• "Games were supposed to be a fun career choice. Now I'm afraid I'll get murdered."
• "I used to check twitter for fun. Now it's fear." 
• "There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have to worry about this."
• "I don't draw attention to my femininity in order to survive as a developer. I disguise it with tomboyish behavior and silliness. I am neither." 

Audience members and panelists alike could be heard crying. 

Professor Constance Steinkuehler of the University of Madison Wisconsin talked about how she managed to sneak a toy gun from the massively popular game, "Portal" into the White House during her time as a policy advisor for President Barack Obama – as well as helping shape the Obama Administration's policy on video games and gun violence.

"You can play the games that you want to play, and I can play the games I want to play, and that's called free speech," Steinkuehler said. "I can make the games I want to make, and you can't stop me."

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That's the reason to be in video games, for Professor Steinkuehler: It's free speech, pure and simple. 

The next panelist, EA Creative Director Amy Hennig, discussed her love affair with old-school arcades and the Atari 2600, which eventually faded. She went to film school instead, and her dream was to become a cinematographer. But she was told that it was for men only and to find another career. 

She never gave up, and eventually took a job at Atari making a game for its Atari 7200 game console to help pay for her tuition. And while the game wasn't great, it made her consider a real career, working her way up in the industry, and doing a little bit of design work for EA on classics like Desert Storm and not-so-classics like Super Nintendo's "Michael Jordan: Chaos In The Windy City."

Her career continues to take off, with stints at major studios like Crystal Dynamics and Naughty Dog. Most recently, she led creative direction for the "Uncharted" series, and now she's back at EA working on a Star Wars game. 

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For Hennig, her main reason to be in the games industry is that it's presented continued opportunities and rewards for her, thanks to her tenacity. 

"These things are not the game industry," Hennig says on the GamerGate controversy and the harassment that centers around it. It's not a man's world, she says, and it's important to fight that perception. 

Sela Davis, a software engineer with Microsoft, spoke on her experiences as a child who made games on her ZZT computer who then went to the Rochester Insitute of Technology for Information Technology, only to take a break and go into creative writing, metalsmithing, and eventally a stint at SAP before going back to finish her degree. 

"I wasn't happy in art, and I wasn't happy in tech," Davis says on what led her to go back to RIT and learn to really make games. 

Her career in games started to take off. Soon, she ran up against impostor syndrome, made much worse by the fact that she was often the only woman in the room. Not feeling like you fit in with everybody else in the room can eat at your confidence. 

Davis' one reason to be in the games industry is that it needs more people who can feed each other's energy. 

Adriel Wallick, the independent game developer better known as 'MsMinotaur,' also touched on her own experiences with playing games. Video games were her escape when she was lonely, and she used it to bond with friends. 

"They let us do lots of things," Wallick says. 

Eventually, her interest turned to programming, and she built a rudimentary text adventure. Later in her life, she discovered the independent video game scene, and started building small projects in between punching the clock at her day job. Soon, she connected with Boston-based game studio, Harmonix. Along the way, she found she got a lot of respect and support and mentorship from the games community. 

"It's allowed me to be a part of all these communities who have made me feel like family," Wallick says of her number one reason to love the games industry.

Finally, Katherine Cross, a Ph.D candidate with the City University of New York, where she studies online harassment. 

"Boy, have I ever been given a case study," Cross said, referring to GamerGate, to laughs. 

Cross took an academic approach to her presentation: On paper, women are in the industry, working as critics and coders; engineers and economists. The gap in understanding why harassment is a big deal, Cross says, comes from not understanding that the Internet is real life, where people do business and present the work that matters to them. That's why harassment matters, because it interferes with and scares people away from a space that really matters. 

When faced with the wrath of GamerGate herself for discussing the subject publicly, Cross said there was only one thing to do: write about games more. Cue a standing ovation. 

And so Cross' reason to be in games is to be part of a community building new, interesting forms of criticism that tackle issues of sex and race in the gaming world. To create a world where people understand why the Internet and video games matter, and so aren't threatened by women in the field. Change is being made, bit by bit, by people writing on the frontier. 

"I study games because they matter. Because gamers matter," Cross says. 

The overall message is that women are here, playing video games, writing about video games, and making video games, they care about video games as much as any other gaming enthusiast, and they're not going away just because of a hashtag. In fact, games critic Leigh Alexander announced she's launching a new website called Offworld just for criticism and interviews from and with women and minorities in games.

"I am here to stay, and there's nowhere else I would rather be," Cross says.

Once again, the #1ReasonToBe panelists each recieved a standing ovation.

child confronts the terrorist who killed his father

Pictured here according to @Iraqilana is the moment an Iraqi child confronted the terrorist who was arrested for murdering his father.

Science says that charisma can be learned — here are 9 proven strategies

It's not something you're born with.

"Charisma is simply the result of learned behaviors," says Olivia Fox Cobane, author of "The Charisma Myth." 

Use words that people can relate to.

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In his book "Why Presidents Succeed," University of California at Davis psychologist Dean Keith Simonton argues that the most effective communicators use concrete — rather than abstract — language.

"'I feel your pain' has association," he tells the APA Monitor, "but 'I can relate to your viewpoint' doesn't. The most charismatic presidents reached an emotional connection with people talking not to their brains but to their gut."

Express your feelings.

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"Charismatic individuals express their feelings spontaneously and genuinely," Claremont McKenna College psychologist Ronald E. Riggio says. "This allows them to affect the moods and emotions of others."

It's called emotional contagion, or "the tendency to automatically mimic and synchronize expressions."

So if you're really excited about something, other people with "catch" that excitement, too.

Talk about your potential — it's more impressive than talking about your accomplishments.

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A Stanford-Harvard study recently cited on Marginal Revolution suggests that accomplishments aren't what capture people's attention — rather, it's a person's perceived potential. 

"This uncertainty [that comes with potential] appears to be more cognitively engaging than reflecting on what is already known to be true," the authors write. 

Mirror the person you're speaking to.

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Psychologists have found that when two people are getting along, they start to mirror each other's bodies as a sign of trust and safety. Your date crosses their legs, so do you; you take a sip of water, so does your date. 

If you want to do better in a negotiation, the research says to mimic your opponent's behavior.

Walk the same rate as other people — they'll think you're friendly.

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In a Durham University study, students were shown video clips of 26 other students walking — some with looser gaits, some tighter. 

Just a few steps were needed to give a sense of personality. Students equated looser gaits with extroversion and adventurousness, while the more clipped walkers were seen as neurotic.

A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study on walking speeds showed that guys match women's walking paces if they're attracted to them.

Keep your hands and torso open to signal that you're welcoming.

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Body language experts agree that posture speaks louder than words. 

Keeping your hands stuffed in your pockets and your shoulders turned inward sends the signal that you're not interested. But talking with your hands and standing in an open stance shows that you're available. 

Bring a dog with you, since it makes you look nurturing.

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In a University of Michigan experiment, women read vignettes about men. Whenever the story featured a person who owned a dog, women rated them with higher long-term attractiveness.

The researchers concluded that owning a pet signaled that you're nurturing and capable of making long-term commitments. It also makes you appear more relaxed, approachable, and happy. 

Smile more.

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In two experiments, researchers in Switzerland examined the relationship between attractiveness and smiling.

They found that the stronger the smile, the more attractive a face looked. 

In fact, a happy facial expression compensated for relative unattractiveness.

Get people to talk about themselves.

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According to Harvard research, talking about yourself stimulates the same brain regions as sex or a good meal. 

"Activation of this system when discussing the self suggests that self-disclosure ... may be inherently pleasurable," Scientific American reports. 

And when people talk about their experiences, they become more vulnerable to one another, and when they become more vulnerable to one another, they form social bonds and coinvest in one another's welfare. 

Actor Harrison Ford plane survives plane crash in LA

He's not just a hero in his action films, he's one in real life. Actor Harrison Ford, 72, saved his life and that of others yesterday. He was flying a small vintage plane in Venice, California on Thursday afternoon when the engine failed. He managed to fly to plane to Penmar golf course and made a crash landing there to avoid human casualty. He was the only person in the plane at the time of the crash.

The experienced pilot, who has been flying since the 60s, sustained head wounds and bled profusely. He was transported to the UCLA trauma centre where he's currently receiving treatment for injuries he sustained from the crash. His son, Ben Ford later tweeted to fans to assure them that his dad is ok

"At the hospital. Dad is ok. Battered, but ok! He is every bit the man you would think he is. He is an incredibly strong man.'

The fact that he escaped the crash with just a few injuries is not surprising to those who have flown with him. They say he's a great pilot. See photos from the crash after the cut..

 

Harrison flying same plane that crashed yesterday, last month.