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...linked. How? The sexual circuitry releases huge amounts of dopamine. The reward system in the brain basically gets triggered during sex and orgasm and then feeds back on the rest of the brain, making it want to do that again and again - and wanting to seek out the person that you're having that lovely experience with again and again. So at some point, the love circuits and the sex circuits get gradually bound together. The sexual part of that experience gets more and more attached to that [particular] female, and gradually merges with that circuitry and identifies that person...
...write that men and women process emotions differently. How? The mirror-neuron system [MNS] allows us to [see a facial expression] and know what that person is feeling. When we are looking at an infant or another person we care about, women will resonate with that feeling a lot longer than men. This is not to say that men don't do this. They do. They start out very quickly in the MNS and get a quick flash of what's going on. Then they switch into another system called the temporal parietal junction system, which allows them to start...
...Duehr, Min says, “He’s a really organized person. For him, it was not a social thing, it was ‘let’s do this.’ He’s also really open minded, always takes notes, always listens to us.... He knows what he’s doing. It’s helpful to have him at Harvard...
...incorporating graphic design into the curriculum would not be without its challenges. “I’m not sure what department graphic design would fall under,” Guo added. “And obviously, there’s a limit to how many courses a person can take each semester, so it’d be great if a graphic design course could somehow fulfill a GenEd requirement...
...committee goes further, with a call to jettison the term special relationship as ruthlessly as colonists once dumped tea into Boston Harbor. The expression was coined by no less a person than Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the intricate skeins of mutual interest, cultural heritage and sometimes gloopy sentiment that bind Washington and London. Globalization and "shifts in geopolitical power" mean that both countries are inevitably forming new and deep alliances with other players, and talk of a "special relationship" is increasingly misleading, says the report. "The overuse of the phrase by some politicians and many in the media...