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Evo-Psych Savannah Guy Has A New Number:
So Evolutionary Psychologist and fan of Real Ale, Dr. Robin Dunbar is out with another pronouncement.
It may not get as much press as his famous “Dunbar Number”,
Which is based on the Savannah Theory and guesses at the maximum # of social connections a person can handle (150).
But it may be just as important,
Especially for men who need to get out of the house, or at least kick the women out of the Man Cave…
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Psychology Sees The Light:
So one of the more recent discoveries in psychology is similar to one admission by the evil DrugCo. CEO played by Roger Horton in a previous entry:
If you live far from the equator, the seasons change your mood; sometimes too much.
One of the ways to fix this is to bring back the sunlight with a very special light-box.
It’s so effective, that the light is said to be as good as CBT for people affected.
Well that boost in mood got some crafty Italian researchers thinking; and they just might put Pfizer out of business…
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Drug researchers have been trying for at least as long as regular Viagra for men to make a version of the same for women.
Sometimes, they’ve even gone as far as testing regular Viagra on women for the same effects.
And of course, results were inconsistent.
Well, just a few days ago, the FDA approved the newest drug-salvo in that pleasure war, Addyi.
But unfortunately, if it’s a victory at all, it’s a Pyrrhic one…
Thus far in human history, wearing a man-skirt seemed only good for making a guy look like a trainspotting soccer hooligan to be avoided at all costs.
Well now SCIENCE! has come to the rescue and theorized an actual benefit to the traditional garb, besides winning your FREEEDOM! from the English.
The Kilt-loving Dr. Erwin Kompanje from Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands has done a meta-analysis of the sparsely-available literature.
And his conclusions are that regimental-style kilt-wearing provides perhaps the perfect environment to boost male fertility…
On the sillier end of things, another pheromone study has come out.
And it says, somehow mystifyingly, that people can more-or-less smell each-others’ political beliefs.
Whatever the influence is, it’s got to be extremely-subtle given all possible environmental variables (if this study is not completely BS, of-course).
SO: What the researchers did was to set things up similar to the er, ~somewhat-proven Immune-System…
Though not as cutely-illustrated as ASAPScience’s stuff, Michael Stevens of VSauce goes into some interesting depth and detours here about the science and evolution of kissing.
Some of what he covers in this vid include: Kissing is healthy for us, it’s probably been used as a “Taste Test” part of mate-selection for well; -ever, Don’t go all Silverstone but Kissing was probably used for the world’s first and maybe healthiest baby-food, and into the darker areas of science,…
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So if assaults by freeze-dried saw palmetto berries and the butt-kickers at The Salk Institute weren’t enough, Angela Christiano and her team have come up with a few new tweaks to the standard method for regrowing those stubborn hair cells.
Normally, a patch of hair-cells called Dermal Papillae are extracted from a skin-patch and then if all goes well, duplicated in a lab.
However most of the time, this process doesn’t go well for reasons we don’t yet completely understand.
But in Angela’s new twist, instead of just laying the cells out flat…
Normally, when a girl jams her hand down your pants, it would seem the interview phase of the date is then over and it’s now time to get down to Austin Powers.
However, following the results of a new study, this could just turn out to be Phase 2.5 of the application procedure.
According to this new work by Emory University, smaller gonad-size…
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