More than a dozen collections and museums welcomed members of the public to 51吃瓜黑料 Davis this weekend to showcase various aspects of the natural world.
Biodiversity Museum Day included 13 different campus entities, highlighting everything from bugs to plants to . See an interview before the event in the above video or learn about some of the cockroaches shown off in .
Relationship researcher takes questions
Paul Eastwick, a professor who leads the psychology department鈥檚 attraction and relationships research lab, took questions on the day before Valentine鈥檚 Day about relationships. Some of his advice and answers were as follows:
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So that means that if you鈥檙e single and would like not to be, it鈥檚 a better idea to cultivate networks of friends and acquaintances than to keep trying to strike up conversations with random strangers in the hope that a spark will magically appear.
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Well, to me, the answer is 鈥渟erial monogamy.鈥 We are built to bond, but in humans, those bonds don鈥檛 always last forever. But it sure does look a lot like polygamy when people are between partners!
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I think part of the answer harkens back to the deemphasizing of attachment and the numbness that people need to cultivate to survive in hookup culture. Part of it, too, is that online dating and social media allow us to interact with people who are not deeply connected to our existing 鈥渞eal-world鈥 networks of friends and acquaintances. So if the ghosts don鈥檛 have the courage to end a relationship with some dignity, and there aren鈥檛 going to be social consequences for him/her/they, then it鈥檚 going to happen with increasing frequency, sadly.
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