Ian Sample

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1,976 appearances 28 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Science Weekly · Are rich people really worse behaved? Here’s the science · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Then you kind of break that bond. matched

And and you can start behaving more well, I'm just going to behave how I want to behave, because you're not so sort of wedded to these social contracts. matched

This is speculation, but this is what they think may be underpinning why they see these results. matched

That's right. matched

That's exactly right. matched

Marie, the next award we're gonna talk about is the Peace Prize. matched

Who won that this year? matched

Okay, so we want our friends to be kind and trustworthy towards us, but we want sort of our enemies to be our friends' enemies as well, right? matched

And what the researchers want us to take away from this though? matched

Is there something you can relate to, Maddie? matched

Have you ever had anyone or a need for anyone to go into battle for you? matched

So the biomechanics prize this year went to a research team largely based at University of Oxford. matched

And they got the prize for coming up with a precise scientific definition of kissing. matched

They wanted to look at the evolution of kissing. matched

And if you want to look at the evolution of kissing, you need to look at where kissing sort of occurs across the animal kingdom, let's say. matched

You want to see all the different species. matched

So then you need to think, well, matched

Animals look different, different things can be going on. matched

And so you have to work out actually what do we mean by kissing? matched

And the definition they came up with was a non-agonistic interaction involving directed, intraspecific, all contact with some movement of the lips, stroke, mouth parts, and no food transfer. matched

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