Xophoros » Uncategorized http://www.xophoros.com/blog Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:40:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Brain in Love http://www.xophoros.com/blog/2010/06/the-brain-in-love/ http://www.xophoros.com/blog/2010/06/the-brain-in-love/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:08:08 +0000 Kristopher http://www.xophoros.com/blog/?p=419 If you enjoyed that, you should also watch this next talk, which she gave previously and involves a slightly different angle, and shares a few more details. Helen Fisher on why we love + cheat: Thanks to Leah for posting.]]> Romantic love is not an unsolvable, magical mystery; and it’s also not reducible to mere lust. Anthropologist, Helen Fisher, sheds light on some of the dynamics in play, and how knowing the details does not reduce this universal and meaningful human experience.

If you enjoyed that, you should also watch this next talk, which she gave previously and involves a slightly different angle, and shares a few more details. Helen Fisher on why we love + cheat:

Thanks to Leah for posting.

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This second one is just one of my favorites.

]]> This first video has been popular in the blogosphere lately, but I just had to pass it along. It’s particularly funny if you’ve seen the new Sherlock Holmes.

 

This second one is just one of my favorites.

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I’ve heard the real end of the Mayan calender is something closer to 2208, and that 2012 was just a miscalculation. Sad, the end of the world is not nigh.

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