Love By The Numbers
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’re exploring love by the numbers, this week. 36 questions, 40 first dates, and 43 equations – it’s all part of the new mathematical science of love. Love in 36 Questions; To Fall In Love, Do This; Screw Everyone; Calculus of Love -- Why Good Marriages Are Made of Math; Dangerous Idea: Why it's Good to be Alone; Edmund White on the Politics of Promiscuity.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for WPR comes from Vernon Memorial Healthcare, announcing that the Wellness Center is now at 1130 Nelson Parkway in Vroquah, newly renovated with new equipment and personal trainers by appointment. More at vmh.org. |
| 0:18.4 | It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champamps. Do you remember what it was like to fall in love? |
| 0:24.7 | That slow process of getting to know someone, letting them see you, the real you, not your social mask. |
| 0:31.9 | Sharing dreams and telling secrets, it can feel intoxicating and addictive. |
| 0:40.3 | So what if I told you that a team of researchers can make that happen in a laboratory between two strangers? It takes one hour and 36 |
| 0:47.0 | questions, but they have to be the right questions. Given the choice of anyone in the world, |
| 0:56.0 | whom would you want as a dinner guest? Would you like to be famous? In what way? |
| 1:01.0 | Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you're going to say? |
| 1:06.0 | What would constitute a perfect day for you? |
| 1:10.0 | When did you last sing to yourself? |
| 1:12.2 | Or to someone else? |
| 1:14.4 | If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want? |
| 1:26.5 | Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? |
| 1:30.1 | For what in your life do you feel most grateful? |
| 1:32.7 | If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be? |
| 1:36.2 | If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be? |
| 1:41.4 | If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, |
| 1:45.2 | the future, or anything else, what would you want to know? Is there something you've dreamed |
| 1:54.3 | of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it? |
| 2:04.0 | What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? |
| 2:05.8 | What do you value most in a friendship? |
| 2:07.9 | What is your most treasured memory? |
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