Episode 5: Avoiding Extinction
Science… sort of: Episode 5.
- Do pretty women actually make men loose their minds? Justin, Ryan, and Patrick explore a new study that suggests that this is indeed true.
- Next the paleopals continue to be lost in space as they discuss the trailer for the upcoming horror scifi flick “Pandorum“.
- Then the Nile crocodile tries to avoid extinction in the Okavango Delta (link may require subscription), as the trio analyze opportunities for artificial insemination.
- Finally, Justin plays the odd-man-out as Ryan and Patrick continue their love-affair with werewolves as they discuss the comic The Astounding Wolf-Man Volume 1.
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hey guys, i enjoy your podcast. passing it along to Jacqui since you reviewed her paper on the crocs. see you in santa cruz soon… christie
small comment this time…. during the psych experiment, the women could repeat the letters better due to the fact that the way their brains work allow them to cross the corpus collosum easily, whilest men often have a harder time switching between left(logical) and right(emotional) hemispheres. The attraction to the women would force the men into a right hemisphere thought pattern, forcing their concentration and cognative thought to fail them.
@Saxon: I think the “separation of hemispheres” in the brain is for the most part largely overblown in the public perception. The sides aren’t that drastically different and I doubt the differences in the corpus callosum are significant enough between men and women to account for the differences in the study. There are more factors than gender which contribute to the thickness of the corpus callosum (left handed people tend to be a bit thicker too, for example). The psychologists running the study think that men tend to become “reproductively focused” which accounts for the lapses in other skills.