The Mother Who Never Fed
Harry Harlow gave baby monkeys a choice: a wire mother with a bottle of milk, or a soft cloth mother with nothing. They clung to the cloth one almost all day, and visited the wire one only to eat. Food was never the bond — warmth was. And 70 years later, a monkey named Punch re-ran the experiment in a Japanese zoo with an IKEA orangutan.
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A 21-Minute Theater Play That Cracked the Code of Every Relationship You'll Ever Have
Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation experiment is a masterpiece of minimalism — 8 scenes, 21 minutes, a baby, a mother, and a stranger. What it revealed about how we love (and fail to love) is still echoing 50 years later.
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