Slay Your Paper Tigers

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

English - March 28, 2013 20:06 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB - ★★★★ - 5.5K ratings
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Slay Your Paper Tigers: Sure, we all know a pile of paperwork or a job interview is nothing like a bloody battle to the death with a saber toothed tiger - but do our bodies know that? Is our brain still wired for fight or flight regardless of the modern stakes? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie discuss how and why our brains interpret minor annoyances as ancestral enemies.

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