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131. Why Do We Cry?

No Stupid Questions

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Are You There for Measuring Men's Sadness?

You can put people in an fMRI and you can't tell why people cry. Neuroscientists use fMRIs to get at things that are much more, to my mind, complicated and diffuse than crying. It's either the sad part of the brain or the sauerkraut parts of the brain to be determined by future scientists.

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