- Martin Westwell
As the war continues against "lad culture" which, according to David Blunkett, is responsible for boys' consistently poor exam results. What arethe real differences between boys and girls?
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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of love and what happens when we fall in love, including substances that make us feel turned on, the neurotransmitters involved in orgasm and pheromones, the mediators of sexual attraction.
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- Danielle Turner
Researchers have been investigating how the unexpected affects how well and what you remember. If you want to be remembered - surprise someone! Super learning occurs when we encounter something highly unexpected.
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- Dalya Rosner
It's funny how the microscopic world of bacteria and viruses are so similar to the macroscopic world of human migrants... A look at life from a germ's point of view.
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- Emma Gatti
The Pythia, the prophetess at the Oracle of Delphi, was said to be able to communicate with Apollo by going into a trance. But science has shown that these trances weren't down to divine intervention - instead they were the result of inhaling noxious gases from nearby geological fault lines...
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- Emma Jarvis
For the last 75 years the average IQ test score has been increasing in every industrialised country in the world. Are we really more intelligent than our grandparents?
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- Dan Gollub
Dan starts a three part series on dream interpretation. He starts by looking at how theoreticians have viewed dreams, the emotional pattern in dreams, and how dreams affect the dreamer
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- Adel Fattah
SEX: A short word. Often used. Often used to sell products in fact. Yet it is one of our base instincts, one of our prime motivations in life. So why do we find the opposite sex so attractive? And why do we need sex anyway?
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- Manjir Samanta-Laughton
What is consciousness, how does the brain generate the experience of consciousness, and how are scientists trying to unravel a subject, traditionally termed 'the hard problem, which has frustrated the best minds for decades ?
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- Dalya Rosner
On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary took the last few decisive steps up Mount Everest. Dalya has a look at some of the neurological processes which may have driven them up.
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