Person: Robin Dunbar

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Happiness is... living near your local pub

Academics from Oxford University have conducted very valuable research — that may or may not have involved a pub crawl — to reveal what drinkers have always known: Living near a hostelry makes you happier.

technology

Your Facebook friends aren't really your friends according to this survey

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Make it a date for 2014

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A perfect circle of friends

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Have a laugh, it’s good for you

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Scent with love

Laughing releases feel good chemicals in brain

LAUGHING with friends releases feelgood brain chemicals, which also relieve pain.

Thu, 15 Sep, 2011

Bigger brains and eyes ‘the further north you go’

IT’S dim up north — so people living at higher latitudes have bigger eyes and brains, research has suggested.

Wed, 27 Jul, 2011

Falling in love ‘will cost you two close friends’

TWO close friends is the average price you pay for falling in love, scientists have discovered.

Thu, 16 Sep, 2010

New partner costs two close friends, say scientists

Two close friends is the average price you pay for falling in love, scientists have discovered.

Wed, 15 Sep, 2010

How our social relationships add up

THE anthropologist Robin Dunbar visited Trinity College’s Science Gallery last week.

Mon, 10 May, 2010

Jobs may be saved at NI engineering firm

Nearly half the workforce at a Belfast engineering company which was forced into administration tonight appeared on the verge of being saved.

Wed, 29 Aug, 2007

Administrators called in at Belfast engineering firm

An engineering company employing 75 workers has gone into administration after getting into financial difficulties.

Wed, 29 Aug, 2007