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Your furniture can affect your psychology, since our decisions are caused by our circumstances. But HOW does this happen?

Some of this is pretty amazing: When researchers put participants in chairs that leaned slightly to the left, they became slightly more leftish in their political views.

When psychologists asked volunteers to sit in wobbly chairs, and lean on a wobbly table while they answered a survey about the stability of those celebrity relationships that we’re always reading about in the tabloids, they checked the box that said all of them would break up soon (sensing that their furniture was about to do this as well).
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Your Out There editor’s first impression of this capture was that it was a meteor swarm. But then I looked deeper into this YouTuber’s page and found another video of something somewhat similar that is definitely NOT a meteor swarm. So what has he found? This guy is worth watching. Sometimes people who show an interest in what’s out there get rewarded with a pretty spectacular display. To see the other, even stranger video, click here. My best guess now is that we are looking at living creatures of some sort. Pretty amazing stuff.
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You may think you’ve read everything that Whitley Strieber has written, but you HAVEN’T, because his beautiful novel The Secret of Orenda, a thriller about a lost Indian tribe that remembers the secrets of the past, has just been published for your summer reading pleasure. In it Whitley explores the question of what has been lost by creating a hidden Indian tribe called Orenda, who still preserve those secrets. Known only to a few initiates, the people of Orenda continue the ancient ways. But even the wildest places are under threat, and this ancient people, who know nothing of the modern world, are discovered—and become a sensation.read more