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What If We Were All Optimists?

Season 4 Episode 9

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Can You Solve This Riddle?
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2:58
Why do you get a brain freeze?
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2:45
What happens when you eat too many carbs?
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3:59
How do we determine what we consider normal?
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3:49
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4:34
These animal mating rituals reveal some secrets of our own Valentines Day behavior.
The Weird World of Animal Mating
5:06
In conversation with Dr. Carin Bondar on her new book subject: Wild Sex.
Are You a Chronic Procrastinator?
3:41
The science behind procrastination.
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