A scientific study reported on in the Times Online UK (here) and in the BBC News (here) suggests that by reading Agatha Christie you become hypnotized. Mesmerized by her repetitive phrases, the study claims that your brain secretes, in Skinner box fashion, “the chemical messengers… that induce pleasure and satisfaction”.

The art of lie detection could be as old as the pursuit of truth itself, in whatever form or scope. While folk wisdom dictates that the eyes are the doorway to the soul, Kenny Rogers famously illustrated the use of the eyes in the discernment of truth: “knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes”. In tribute to the Gambler’s wisdom, I offer you this well illustrated piece, Eye Movement and Lying.