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When we meet new people, we assess their character by watching their gestures and facial expressions. Now a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA suggests that those nonverbal cues are communicating the presence of a specific form of a gene that makes us more or less responsive to others’ needs. [More]

"It was devastating," says multi-hyphenate performer-musician-artist Aleksa Palladino about the too-short life of one of Boardwalk Empire's nuanced characters.

"It was devastating," says multi-hyphenate performer-musician-artist Aleksa Palladino about the too-short life of one of Boardwalk Empire's nuanced characters. And she shares the alternate ending for Angela that never aired. To play Angela Darmody, the dreamer wife of conflicted gangster Jimmy Darmody [Michael Pitt] on Martin Scorsese project

The other must-see Muppet movie this month is a documentary exploring how Jim Henson's puppetry inspired one man to go way beyond Kermit and create a giggling global icon named Elmo. This Thanksgiving Disney's long-awaited Muppet reboot will finally be in theaters

Video game giant Activision is hoping that dozens of plastic toys, that interact with a series of video games on every possible platform, will be a huge success with kids (and their parents). This weekend, mammoth game publisher Activision launched a new franchise, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure . It's an evolution of the character Spyro the Dragon which debuted on PlayStation 1 in 1998

Craig Robinson, the basketball coach at Oregon State and Michelle Obamas brother, answers questions about coping with setbacks, what you have to do to get to the No. 1 spot, and Barack Obama

What can science reveal about our “character” -- that core of good, or evil, that shapes our moral behavior? The answer, according to a new book, is that there may not be much of a core, after all.