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Three-ness: Do Things Manifest in Threes?

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Three strikes, three primary colors, three goals for a hat trick, three meals a day, the Holy Trinity– do things in our lives really manifest in threes, or are these observations just ways for our brains to simplify and group complex information? On the Liveline with Ed and Jen is Michael Eck, creator of the Book of Threes. (6/30)

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Three interviews with Michael S. Eck regarding celebrity deaths in threes

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As author, administrator and . . . I forget the third, of The Book of Threes at threes.com, I recently did three, that’s right . . ., three interviews on celebrity deaths in threes. Mostly people are interested in why deaths occur in threes.

After these interviews I came to the conclusion that putting deaths into a threeness is the way we master our own mortality. We reflect on these deaths and create a memory by clustering concepts into threes. It gives us a chance to complete our relationship with our celebrities and move on.

Fundamentally we use threes to simplify, complete, and create memory. For more on this, see this self timed Web Presentation on concepts in threes. Run the slideshow.

So here’s what happened beginning June 29, 2009:

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Posted on July 9, 2009 by 3 — Leave a comment

For Celebs, Is Death a True ‘Triple’ Threat?

For Celebs, Is Death a True 'Triple' Threat?

By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Not since the deaths of the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly on Feb. 3., 1959, did the Celebrity Death Rule of Three seem to happen so swiftly.

Television legend Ed McMahon died on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP)

Actress Farrah Fawcett died on Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP)

The "King of Pop" Michael Jackson also died on Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP)

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