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Not because it’s Christmas! – We’re all annoyed by those “red eyes” that show up in photographs when we use a flash. But did you know that men’s FACES can turn out red too? (And WOMEN’S faces can look green!)

Why is this? Because male faces really do have a red tint, while female faces have a naturally green hue. We may have evolved this way to help us tell men from women at a distance.

In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner quotes researcher Michael Tarr as saying, “Just looking at the average color in faces you can reliably tell 70 or 80% of the time whether it’s a male or female face.
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Can’t quite figure out who that person is? Anne Strieber has written about how she has problems recognizing people ever since her stroke. A researcher who was trying to figure out how to get children from the “missing” posters on milk cartons and in grocery stores has figured out a way to remember faces better.
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Can you judge a man’s faithfulness by his face? How about whether he would be a good father or a good provider? Many people believe they can, and a social psychologist who did an online study about this decided they were right.

Researcher Daniel J. Kruger conducted a series of online experiments showing 854 male and female undergraduate students versions of composite male faces that had been altered to look more or less masculine by adjusting, for example, the shape of the jaw, the strength of brow ridges and the thickness of lips.
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First we found out that Mad Cow Disease arrived in the UK because bones from corpses in India were imported there to be used in cattle feed. Now we?ve learned that a Chinese company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products to sell in Europe. Who knows what strange diseases that will bring!

Ian Cobain and Adam Luck report in The Guardian that the company is using collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. We?ve all heard rumors about kidneys being harvested in poor countries for transplantation into patients in the West. There are also legends about hands being removed from executed Chinese prisoners and flown to the West for transplant purposes.
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