All this happened, more or less.

variation in a section of the gene called RS3 334 was linked to how men bond with their partners. Men can have none, one or two copies of the RS3 334 section, and the higher the number of copies, the worse men scored on a measure of pair bonding.

Not only that, men with two copies of RS3 334 were more likely to be unmarried than men with one or none, and if they were married, they were twice as likely to have a marital crisis.

RS3 334's social effects extend beyond bonding in couples. Earlier this year, the same gene section was shown to affect signalling in people's amygdalas, linked to trust. Another study found that people with autism, which is characterised by unusual social behaviour, often have multiple copies of RS3 334.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14641-monogamy-gene-found-in-people.html

the team's next task is to test how a nasal vasopressin spray affects altruism and jealousy.

Understanding what makes experts so good in their domain of expertise is a
traditional field of psychology, which goes back at least to the monograph of Binet (1894, 1966) on the psychology of skilled mental calculators and chess players (see Bryan and Harter, 1899; Cleveland, 1907; or Djakow et al., 1927 for other early examples). Recently, cognitive science has produced a wealth of empirical data on expertise, and several theoretical explanations have been proposed. In particular, research on expert memory has been flourishing, gathering a large amount of data, which have sufficient power to test current theories. It is timely then to compare some of the main contenders.

Fernand Gobet. Expert memory: a comparison of four theories. Cognition 66 (1998) 115–152.

Situated between the private world of the family and the official world of the state, the public sphere was a forum in which previously isolated individuals could come together to exchange information, ideas and criticism. Whether communicating with each other at long range by subscribing to the same periodicals, or meeting face to face in a coffeehouse or in one of the new voluntary associations, such as a reading club or Masonic lodge, the public acquired a collective weight far greater than the sum of its individual members. It was from the public sphere that a new source of authority emerged to challenge the opinion-makers of the old regime: public opinion.

Blanning, Tim. The pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648-1815. ISBN 978-0-670-06320-8

The accepted inventor of the bank credit card was John Biggins at the Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn in New York. The year, 1946. Mr Biggins developed the "Charge-It" program in which local merchants who accepted the card would deposit sales slips into the bank and the bank billed the customer.

1958
Bank of America, based in San Francisco, California, issues BankAmericard. With the state of California as its market, the card is an early success, and it is the first “revolving-credit” card with universal merchant acceptance, allowing cardholders the option of paying their account balance in installments with a monthly finance charge applied to the remaining balance.

1976
BankAmericard changes its name to Visa, a simple, memorable name with an international flavor that is pronounced the same way in almost every language.