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The small details of a person’s face can play a huge role in determining whether or not a person is lying, according to body language experts.

Eye contact and firm handshakes are key to acing a job interview, career advisers agree.

“The handshake is probably the most important since it’s your first interaction with the interviewer,” said Allison Nawoj, a career advisor with Career Builder.  “You don’t want to be too firm, you also don’t want to be too weak.”

Not to say that’s the only thing interviewees should be concerned with.

Body language is the key that separates the great from the average in poker.

At least, according to Mark Hubbard, a fourth-year biology student at Dalhousie University and the winner of the online University Poker Championship.

Mark, who plays casino poker as well as online poker, said he is a believer in deciphering body language, or “tells,” in his opponents.

Tells are the physical signs that a poker player gives that hint at the strength of the hand he has.

It is easy to be duped by advertisements broadcasting the next big scientific remedy to all life’s problems — the pitch can sound so convincing.  

The trouble comes when this convincing pitch has no factual evidence to back it up.

When science is proposed without legitimate facts as support, it can be referred to as pseudoscience, or alternative science.

Cryptozoologists, scientists who research undiscovered creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, say their work is misunderstood by other researchers and is extremely important for understanding nature.

Cryptozoology is the study of, and search for, hidden creatures, called cryptids.

Some of the best-known cryptids are the yeti, sasquatch (more commonly known as Bigfoot) and mysterious sea creatures.