All posts tagged: identify

How to Identify an Emotionally Abusive Family

How to Identify an Emotionally Abusive Family

Published by Jenni Sidey

Family is supposed to be an environment where children receive the love, guidance, encouragement and support they need in order to mature into healthy adults. Unfortunately, in some families, not only are children deprived of the support and encouragement they need, but they are constantly bombarded with experiences of conflict, criticism, competition and chaos. These are what I call emotionally abusive families. The tension and hostility that exist in such families cause children to feel insecure, frightened, and off-balance. In many households, emotionally abusive behavior ends up saturating the family environment until it seems normal. Behavior such as constant putdowns (often in front of others), unreasonable expectations, dismissing or mocking one another’s opinions, and character assassinations go on constantly. While not every emotionally abusive family looks the same, in this post, I will describe many of the common features. Emotionally abusive families can have the following features: Denial. Parents who are being emotionally mistreated by their partner deny they are being abused. They make up excuses for their partner’s behavior: “He’s going through a rough …

Scientists Have Developed a New Technology to Identify Forgeries

Scientists Have Developed a New Technology to Identify Forgeries

Published by Jenni Sidey

A group of scientists at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes have published a study introducing a newly developed method that they say will help authenticate artworks—and identify potential forgeries. The report was published in the June 2026 issue of Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on cross-disciplinary research involving physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering research. The research, conducted by Francois Berkmans, Ludovic Nys, and Maxence Bigerelle, focuses on how surface metrology—essentially, the texture and topography of a painting’s brushstrokes—can be used like a fingerprint to zero in on the authorship of a particular artwork. Surface metrology, Berkmans explained to Artnet News, “has historically been developed mainly for industrial applications and mechanical engineering” and has not typically be applied in an art authentication context. Source link

‘I love my work but don’t identify as an actor’

‘I love my work but don’t identify as an actor’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add The Cage to your Watchlist You did a two-hour audition for the role of Matty in The Cage. Surely, that isn’t how long they all last? Normally you get 15 minutes to half an hour, if you’re lucky. But I’ve known [director] Al McKay since we worked together on This Is England, so we’d had a chat about the intricacies of the character beforehand, which helped me figure out who Matty was. I take every audition seriously – I make sure I’m off-book [don’t need a script], make sure I understand the character – but I worked my arse off for The Cage. So in the audition itself, I got to play, to try stuff, to mess around. It was my favourite ever audition and when I left, I knew I’d done my best. Have you ever done an audition in which you felt you didn’t do your best – but were offered the part anyway? Yeah, and I don’t understand how – and that always gives me anxiety on the first few weeks …

New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints

New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 : Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying which dinosaur left which track has been notoriously difficult. Researchers have now developed a method harnessing artificial intelligence to assist in pinpointing the type of dinosaur responsible for the tracks, based on eight different traits of a given footprint. “This is important because it provides an objective way to classify and compare tracks, reducing reliance on subjective human interpretation,” said physicist Gregor Hartmann of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin research center in Germany, lead author of the research published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Matching track to trackmaker is a huge challenge, and paleontologists have been arguing about this for generations,” University of Edinburgh paleontologist and study senior author Steve Brusatte said. Dinosaurs left behind numerous kinds of fossilized remains, including bones, teeth and claws, impressions of their skin, feces …

Patriot! Here’s How to Identify a Domestic Terrorist

Patriot! Here’s How to Identify a Domestic Terrorist

Published by Sam Flores

The terrorists are the ones without masks. They’re the ones yelling “No!” or “Stop!” or “Shame!” or blowing whistles. Sometimes they brandish cameras at federal agents. Sometimes they wantonly swallow whole canisters of pepper spray. These are just some of their diabolical tactics. The terrorists are the ones who call this place home (that’s what makes it domestic terror). The terrorists are the ones who are dressed as clergy. Some of them, confusingly, are even ordained as clergy. As you look, ask yourself: Is that a Minnesota nice person (not even guaranteed to be “nice”!) or a Minnesota ICE person? (The former is a terrorist; the latter basically has total immunity.) Is he a nurse who works for the VA, or a masked man shooting him in the back? Remember, the terrorist is the one trying to protect his neighbor. You can tell they’re terrorists because they didn’t just stay home. Any good, law-abiding citizens would know better than to put themselves in harm’s way. On such a cold day! They think they’re there to …