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Paleo games at Notre Dame lets student, staff try ancient skills
September 28, 2026
“This is hands-on learning as I've been asking some students as they use the spears and the dunk tank how hard is it do you think you'd be able to hunt down your dinner in the Paleolithic and they're like no we'd die,” said Cara Ocobock, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology. “So, I think it helps students really get some idea of what our life was like you know 100,000 years ago 300,000 years ago and the kind of very necessary and difficult skills you'd have to cultivate to survive."
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The Washington Post
The surprising science of how fatherhood changes the brain
June 18, 2026
While men with higher testosterone were more likely to become partnered fathers, they experienced larger declines in testosterone than single non-fathers, one study found. Indeed, fathers who spent a significant amount of time on child care had lower testosterone levels than those who were not involved.
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Why new dads shouldn’t panic about low testosterone
June 10, 2026
New dads can also experience a decline in testosterone. According to a 2011 paper from University of Notre Dame professor Lee Gettler, part of the largest study on fatherhood and testosterone ever conducted, men averaged around a 25% drop in testosterone after becoming fathers.