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Aug 2022
47m 8s

What Love Does To You & The Oddities of ...

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media
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Have you ever noticed how great ideas and solutions often come to you in the shower? This episode begins with an explanation as to why that often happens to so many people. https://www.headspace.com/articles/shower-epiphanies Is love an emotion? Not according to Anna Machin an evolutionary anthropologist at the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford ... Show More
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