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Former NFL superstar Deion Sanders is getting his own reality series. The series is called Deion & Pilar: Prime Time Love and will air on Oxygen. The series will spotlight the small town Texas home life of Deion Sanders, his wife Pilar, and their five kids.

While the official premiere of the show isn’t until Tuesday, April 15, Oxygen is offering fans a special sneak preview of the series on Super Bowl Sunday. The sneak peak will be twenty-two minutes with no commercials and will air during the Super Bowl halftime show on February 3. The sneak peak will also be streamed online at oxygen.com.

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Eric is a friend of mine from college and I post his letters from time to time.  It’s been six months since he last wrote, and in this letter he talks about his promotion from Captain to Major and leading his solders in breaking in a new Iraqi Army Infantry Battalion and learning just how different their culture is from ours.

You may disagree with some of his view regarding the war, but it is interesting reading.

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Talk about “gaydar.” In just a fraction of a second, people can accurately judge the sexual orientation of other individuals by glancing at their faces, according to new research. The finding builds on the growing theory that the subconscious mind detects and probably guides much more of human behavior than is realized.

Humans are remarkably good at making snap judgments about others. In a hallmark study conducted by psychologists Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal in 1994, people shown 2-second video clips of professors teaching formed opinions about the professors’ teaching abilities that were uncannily similar to evaluations written by students at the end of a semester. The results led psychologists to begin questioning what else people might detect in a glance.

Ambady and colleague Nicholas Rule, both at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, wondered about sexual orientation. They showed men and women photos of 90 faces belonging to homosexual men and heterosexual men for intervals ranging from 33 milliseconds to 10 seconds. When given 100 milliseconds or more to view a face, participants correctly identified sexual orientation nearly 70% of the time. Volunteers were less accurate at shorter durations, and their accuracy did not get better at durations beyond 100 milliseconds, the team reports in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. “What is most interesting is that increased exposure time did not improve the results,” says Ambady.

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