Art of living expert Roman Krznaric talks about The Six Varieties of Love, drawing on his book THE WONDERBOX: Curious Histories of How to Live (Profile Books). He describes how the ancient Greeks were far more sophisticated in the art of loving than we are today. Their different words for love included ‘eros’ (sexual passion), [...]
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The Stanford MRI Lab hosts the world’s first ever love competition, in which seven contestants have five minutes to neurochemically love someone as hard as they can.
In this funny, casual talk from TEDx, writer Jenna McCarthy shares surprising research on how marriages (especially happy marriages) really work. One tip: Do not try to win an Oscar for best actress.
In the year of the 400th anniversary of their publication Professors Stanley Wells, CBE, and Jonathan Bate, CBE, talk to Paul Edmondson about the content and context of Shakespeare’s collection of sonnets.
Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love — and people who had just been dumped.
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