Chemical Basis of Love
via upload.wikimedia.org Sometimes we need to remove the romanticism from the love subject, not that it makes it any easier when love-related things don't go the way one would want them to, but at least the next time…
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The pattern behind self-deception
[youtube= Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how…
The Human Brain: How We Decide
[youtube= When Jonah Lehrer was in town to talk about his latest book, "How We Decide", Calacademy snagged the opportunity to interview him for "Science in Action". He took the Visualization Studio through a tour of the brain…