World’s Strangest

Jay Cheel’s friends play Settlers of Catan. Soda is poured, chips prepared, the board laid out, and then…a ruckus ensues. In this documentary, Cheel reveals the fractured relationships within one group of friends who play, fight, and eat snacks. Sample exchange: Gerry: “I remember screaming, and I’m not sure if I was intelligible or [...]

Why are men so cheap? Blame testosterone: “Our broad conclusion is that testosterone causes men essentially to be stingy,” says Karen Redwine, a neuro-economist at Whittier College in California [...] To make this case, Redwine and her colleague Paul Zak, at the Claremont Graduate University in California, gave a testosterone-containing gel to 25 male university students, [...]