Breast-feeding triggers pulses of feel-good hormone | Science | Reuters
When a baby breast-feeds, it triggers a flood of the hormone oxytocin that releases milk from the mammary gland and a feeling of love and trust in the mother that ensures the baby's needs...
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When a baby breast-feeds, it triggers a flood of the hormone oxytocin that releases milk from the mammary gland and a feeling of love and trust in the mother that ensures the baby's needs...
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Dear Al Gore, Did you forget about harvesting carbon for bioenergy?!
We might amaze ourselves at how much can be accomplished in the next ten years, and how quickly we could transform carbon from an economic liability into a profit generating resource that...
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We might amaze ourselves at how much can be accomplished in the next ten years, and how quickly we could transform carbon from an economic liability into a profit generating resource that...
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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - Times Online
Using genetically modified bugs for fermentation is essentially the same as using natural bacteria to produce ethanol, although the energy-intensive final process of distillation is virtu...
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece?
Using genetically modified bugs for fermentation is essentially the same as using natural bacteria to produce ethanol, although the energy-intensive final process of distillation is virtu...
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The Neurobiology of Trust: Scientific American
Using an experimental task called the trust game, researchers have found that oxytocin, a hormone and neurochemical, enhances an individual’s propensity to trust a stranger when that pe...
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Using an experimental task called the trust game, researchers have found that oxytocin, a hormone and neurochemical, enhances an individual’s propensity to trust a stranger when that pe...
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog: A hormone boost to generosity...
Another bit of work on the magic hormone, oxytocin, that makes us more affiliative, gentle, and trusting..
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Another bit of work on the magic hormone, oxytocin, that makes us more affiliative, gentle, and trusting..
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Oxytocin is the window to the soul « BRAINETHICS
German researchers show that injecting subjects with a whiff of oxytocin will also improve be ability to infer, based just on eye cues, what a person is thinking about.
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http://brainethics.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/oxytocin-is-the-window-to-the-soul
German researchers show that injecting subjects with a whiff of oxytocin will also improve be ability to infer, based just on eye cues, what a person is thinking about.
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Oxytocin: the direct route to altruism? « BRAINETHICS
The administration of oxytocin affected subjects’ in a trust game. In particular, it was found that subjects that received oxytocin were not affected by information about co-players tha...
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http://brainethics.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/oxytocin-the-direct-route-to-altruism
The administration of oxytocin affected subjects’ in a trust game. In particular, it was found that subjects that received oxytocin were not affected by information about co-players tha...
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