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Does Your Pet Love You Back?

Experiments from child psychology test dogs’ and cats’ attachment to their owners

10 min readJun 30, 2021

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Does Your Pet Love You Back?

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Maria Ter-Mikaelian

Do We Have Less Energy as We Get Older — and If so, Why?

Unraveling the fascinating science behind the cliché

10 min readMay 3, 2021

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Do We Have Less Energy as We Get Older — and If so, Why?

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Maria Ter-Mikaelian

How My Mid-life Crisis Helped Me “Get” Poetry

The strange collision of my grandfather and my search for religion

5 min readAug 3, 2021

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How My Mid-life Crisis Helped Me “Get” Poetry

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Can You Catch Your Death of Cold from a Walk in the Rain?

What 19th century novels got right about seasonal viruses

10 min readMay 11, 2020

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Can You Catch Your Death of Cold from a Walk in the Rain?

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Exposing the Weird Pleasure of Aesthetic Chills

The surprising science of spine-tingling art

9 min readNov 10, 2017

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Exposing the Weird Pleasure of Aesthetic Chills

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BRIGHT Magazine

Help Students Remember For A Lifetime, Not Just A Semester

Scientists have figured out the best way to retain facts, even decades later. Here’s how.

6 min readJun 23, 2017

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Help Students Remember For A Lifetime, Not Just A Semester

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How to Stop Procrastinating

Immediate & tested help for students

11 min readApr 18, 2017

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How to Stop Procrastinating

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The Coffeelicious

To change or not to change… the time

A closer look at the costs and benefits to our health and performance

8 min readMar 11, 2017

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To change or not to change… the time

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The Coffeelicious

Wildlife lover? 5 free & easy ways you can contribute to global research and conservation efforts

Citizen science projects where you can make a difference in as little as 30 minutes

6 min readMar 2, 2017

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Wildlife lover? 5 free & easy ways you can contribute to global research and conservation efforts

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The Coffeelicious

What are they really thinking?

Research provides insights into the minds of farm animals

8 min readJan 13, 2017

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What are they really thinking?

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Maria Ter-Mikaelian

Maria Ter-Mikaelian

Maria has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and writes depth pieces about the biology of humans and other animals. Follow her on Twitter @MariaTerScience

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