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Attachment Style Isn’t Destiny

The panic set in at the same point every semester: Whenever Ximena Arriaga, a psychology professor at Purdue University, got to attachment theory in her course on close relationships, the classroom grew tense. When she described how people who are anxiously attached can sometimes be demanding and vigilant—and that can drive their partners away—certain students looked disturbed. “I could just see in their face: I’m so screwed,” Arriaga told me. When she explained how avoidantly attached people might feel overwhelmed by emotional intimacy, other students seemed so uncomfortable that they physically shrank back. Some would approach her after class and ask: “Is there any hope for me?”These students were likely misinterpreting attachment theory in a way that experts told me...

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The Last Of Us Episode 5 Feels Very Much Like A Video Game Level

Well, before we get to the main recap, a revelation. We are not in Pittsburgh, but in Kansas City — likely a change meant to signal that the show is making a lot of changes to this part of the story.And those changes start with the opening scene, which is once again a flashback! We travel back to the night Melanie Lynskey's Kathleen takes control of the Kansas City QZ and draws FEDRA out. Now, so far, we've had a laugh or two at FEDRA based on Ellie's comments about their schools being terrible or Frank saying they are nazis, but this episode truly shows the evils of the Federal Disaster Response Agency. We learn from Kathleen that FEDRA used informants...

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Best Vegetables for Picky Eaters

Have a picky eater? Give these 15 best vegetables for picky eaters a try. Kids and vegetables – two words that most people think don’t agree with one another. However, it doesn’t have to be this way! Although many toddlers tend to push away their plates at vegetables, there is not need to be in a panic over this. Children often go through phases of not eating certain foods or food groups. If your child stops choosing to eat vegetables for a time, they’ll probably be fine. Why Kids Might Be Picky with Vegetables It’s New to Them – New things can be scary – including new foods! With the wide range of tastes, textures, and shapes of vegetables it’s...

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National Geographic Amazing Worms Chemistry Kit

Vendor: INCREDIBLE NOVELTIES Type: Science Price: 23.99 Give your kids a creepy, crawly chemistry kit they’ll love! The National Geographic Amazing Worms Chemistry Kit comes with everything your children need to conduct five unforgettable experiments. They’ll make glow-in-the-dark worms, color-changing worms, worm eggs, and more! A detailed experiment guide takes you step-by-step through each experiment and includes insight into the polymer science and chemical reactions that make this kit so much fun!   5 awesome chemistry experiments that explore the world of polymers! The experiments in this kit demonstrate the principles of: -Polymer reactions (molecule chains cross-linking, present in all experiments)-Phosphorescence (make glow-in-the-dark worms)-pH indication and colour-changing (colour-changing worms) 5+ years.

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Can Animals Feel Disgust?

Eleven years ago, on the remote Japanese island of Kojima, a female macaque walked backwards into a stray heap of primate poop, glanced down at her foot, and completely flipped her lid. The monkey hightailed it down the shoreline on three feet, kicking up sand as she sprinted, until she reached a dead tree, where “she repeatedly rubbed her foot and smelled it until all of the sticky matter disappeared,” says Cécile Sarabian, a cognitive ecologist at the University of Hong Kong, who watched the incident unfold. Sarabian, then a graduate student studying parasite transmission among primates, was entranced by the familiarity of it all: the dismay, the revulsion, the frenetic desire for clean. It’s exactly what she or any...

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