Now we need a scientist to explain how we make friends... WTF? What's next, why
we need food, sex... breathing? Don't these people have real jobs?
A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He learns by
doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink
On Sunday, October 10, 2021, 05:15:59 AM EDT, New Scientist Events
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| THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER 2021 | 6-7pm BST | 1-2pm EDT | On-demand |
| Friendship is the single most important thing that affects our
psychological and our physical health and wellbeing – and one of the most
complex. The demands that maintaining our relationships with other people makes
on the brain’s computing power is so great that the number of friends we can
have at any one time is limited to around 150.
That number is otherwise known as Dunbar’s number, and there is no better
guide to the intricacies of friendship than the person it is named after,
evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar. Join him as he explains how our brain
creates friendships for us – and how to make that work for you. |
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The End of Ageing with Aubrey de Grey
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Somewhere, somehow inscribed in the brain is what makes you, you – your
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vast range of perceptions, thoughts and emotions we feel from moment to moment?
In this talk, Anil Seth draws on his own research and collaborations with
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Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but
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In this talk evolutionary biologist, writer and film producer Sean B Carroll
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surprising ways chance has shaped our existence. |
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