Daniel Sznycer

🚨 Laws about bodily damage originate from shared intuitions about the value of body parts science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… New research by the great @YunsuhW, with @JaimieKrems & me, in @ScienceAdvances 🧵

If only someone had made the same arguments, & more, five years ago ;-) cc @EricMercadante @ProfJessTracy

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Men who are physically stronger and women who are more physically attractive tend to be more likely to get angry. Social emotions such an anger and gratitude evolved to help people navigate the adaptive problems posed by social interactions. Sell et al found evidence that…

Here's where it gets really cool: Sleep pressure (that building urge to nod off) and hunger might share the same cellular roots in mitochondrial dynamics—the cycles of fission (splitting) and fusion (merging) that keep these organelles humming. In the mammalian brain's…

Shame can make us feel isolated, hurting our health and relationships — but it can also drive growth. On this episode, we untangle why we feel it, where shame comes from, and how it affects our behavior and health. 🔗 lnk.to/whyy-thepulse

Interested in love and mate preferences? Our dataset includes responses from 117,293 participants across 175 countries. You're welcome to use it for your own research! Paper and dataset linked below. @ with amazing collaborators from the large-scale cross-cultural consortium <3

There is no red in this picture; your brain is filling in the red color. The picture is made entirely of light blue, black, and white.

A photograph by Félix Thiollier (c. 1899)—quite possibly my favourite photograph of all time

At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.

Mathematician and polymath John von Neumann could speak eight languages by the age of six, including Ancient Greek and Latin. He could divide eight-digit numbers in his head at the age of six. He was familiar with differential and integral calculus by the age of eight. He entered…

Terrific paper by Shari Liu and colleagues Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

Feng Tsan-Huang, an artist based in Taiwan, has dedicated over three decades to crafting kites, and one of his creations takes the form of a bicycle.

In the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Iceland 🇮🇸 is a lighthouse at an altitude of 40m. It was built on Westman Island in 1939 a time when helicopters were not yet in use. Master climbers were used during its construction and for transportation of materials. Perched…

Taken 106 years ago, on Monday 22nd Dec 1919, I have cleaned-up this autochrome view of the 6th Paris Air Show, photographed by Georges Chevalier at the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées. It is original colour, not colourised.

The centroid of Norway lies in the center of Sweden

To be more charitable, I think that virtue theorists are on to something (we do have a plurality of stable cooperative dispositions, and this 'character' is the focus of other's evaluations). But this is not an alternative theory, it is part of a greater cooperative whole.

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

Next Episode is up! Dave and David discuss examples of good evolutionary psychology. epthepod.podbean.com/e/good-evoluti… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo… youtu.be/4CrMnhPHPec?si…