Susan Kuchinskas
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Susan Kuchinskas is a journalist with more than fifteen years of experience who has published thousands of articles on science, technology, and culture. She is the author of Chemistry of Connection: How the Oxytocin Response Can Help You Find Trust, Intimacy and Love (New Harbinger Publications, 2009). Her work has appeared in Time, Wired, and many other publications.

Visit her website: http://hugthemonkey.com.

Blog Entries by Susan Kuchinskas

Why Daddy Love Is Different

Posted June 20, 2009 | 17:05:00 (EST)

Mom gets flowers, presents, breakfast in bed on Mother's Day; Dad gets a tie. But fathers get short-changed every day of the year, because we don't understand, accept -- and honor -- all the ways they're not like mothers.

Evolution designed fathers to perform a different role from mothers. Honestly,...

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Kiss Your Computer Today

Posted February 25, 2009 | 18:20:59 (EST)

Why is everyone loving the idea that social networking is creating a society of disconnected zombies? Aric Sigman's recent (and wrong) link-baiting paper suggests that too much time on MySpace could give you cancer.

No, not because of the rays beaming from the screen into your brain. And...

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Oxytocin Helps Us Move From Tribe to Community

Posted February 11, 2009 | 13:52:59 (EST)

In his inaugural address, President Obama expressed the hope that "the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve." Yes, let's hope so. But how do we go from hoping for it to making it a reality? As a society, we may need to learn to trust each other again.

That won't...

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