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    Shots - Health News
    When you listen to a story, your brain waves actually start to synchronize with those of the storyteller. And reading a narrative activates brain regions involved in deciphering or imagining a person's motives and perspective, research has found.
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    How Stories Connect And Persuade Us: Unleashing The Brain Power Of Narrative

    Apr 11, 2020
    The power of shared storytelling to soothe or spur us to action may be more crucial than ever, scientists say. Here's what happens in the brain when we feel swept away by a story, book or film.
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    Thor Ringler (right) interviewed Ray Miller (left) in Miller's hospital room at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wis., in April. Miller's daughter Barbara (center) brought in photos and a press clipping from Miller's time i
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    Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient

    Jun 08, 2019
    VA hospitals are recording patients' life stories to help strengthen understanding between patients and their caregivers. Including such stories in medical records may even improve health outcomes.
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    Stories of Love Gone Wrong

    Feb 08, 2019

    Las Vegans get onstage to tell tales of love that didn't work out

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    'The Moth' Comes To Las Vegas

    Nov 09, 2018

    Storytelling is essential to the human experience.

    We all tell stories every day. We just don’t usually do it on stage in front of hundreds of people.

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    It is time for us to assess the pros and cons of the tweetstorm, the thread, the whatever and figure out just what it all means.
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    What Should We Make Of The 'Tweetstorm' or 'Thread,' Or Whatever You Call It?

    Apr 05, 2017
    They're all over Twitter: Strings of tweets about politics or Russian plots or long thoughts. Maybe they're a new way to tell stories, but they say just as much about us as they do about the platform.
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    The Art Of Writing For Hollywood In Las Vegas

    Dec 08, 2016

    While movies are made in Las Vegas, it is not the capital of filmmaking. But there are screenwriters who call Southern Nevada home. 

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    Daniel Craig plays James Bond in the film <em>Casino Royale</em>. Dramatis, a computer program, can detect suspense from this scene and rates it even higher as the plot thickens.
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    Can You Teach A Computer To 'Feel' Suspense?

    Aug 17, 2015
    Scientists want to make computers into better storytellers, but to do that they have to teach the machines a tricky element: suspense. Now researchers believe they've taken a big step forward.
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    The Really Big Questions: What's Your Story?

    Jan 26, 2015
    Why do we tell stories? Evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson says: "Storytelling is far more fundamentally human than even human beings realize." Stories...
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