Robert Sapolsky on Oxytocin and Bonding
[3:40] Robert Sapolsky discusses oxytocin and it’s role in bonding. [Video and text source: JRE Clips YouTube c…
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The Female Orgasm, Explained with Science Projects
[1:55] The male orgasm is an explosive affair, but the female orgasm? Now, that’s a different story. Find out what’…
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Opia: The Ambiguous Intensity of Eye Contact
[2:36] opia – n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive a…
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Why do we feel nostalgia?
[4:08] Nostalgia was once considered an illness confined to specific groups of people. Today, people all over the worl…
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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself
[5:23] The real reason we may destroy ourselves isn’t really to do with politics or economics or even warfare. It has t…
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How to get laid… Pupperfish style
[1:14] A Japanese pufferfish makes an extraordinary sand sculpture to attract and win a mate. [Video and text source: B…
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Daniel Goleman: Your Brain Is Hardwired for Love—Meditation Helps You Fully Express It
[5:33] Meditation is a lot more than just chilling out and reflecting. It can actually rewire your brain to become a bett…
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Lisa Welling: It’s not you, it’s my hormones Testosterone Influences
[16:24] My research finds that increases in testosterone is associated with increased preferences for sexually dimo…
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Sonja Lyubomirsky: Who Says You Need a Partner to be Happy?
[3:36] If you don’t have that special someone this Valentine’s Day, don’t despair. You’re …
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Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA.
[16:35] Moshe Szyf is a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, the study of how living things reprogram their genome in res…
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