Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory by asking them 36 questions. Writer Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Douglas Coupland says only twenty percent of people are hard-wired to “get” irony and the rest take everything at face value.
What if Crack Babies were a myth?
To see the NYTimes video on Crack Babies click here.
A researcher stumbles on a key to rapid evolution in this story by Jeff Bauer.
Sarah Bakewell recommends "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon (translated by Ivan Morris).
National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett writes some of the most beautiful fiction we know about scientists. The stories in her new collection, "Archangel" explore the history of knowledge through five linked characters. After reading it, we're awfully glad she gave up biology to write fiction.
Princeton historian Anthony Grafton explains how learning conversational Latin inspired his students.
Bernd Heinrich tells Steve Paulson about frogs that survive being frozen solid and bears that convert nitrogen into protein while they hibernate sleep.
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