Human nature - Romance

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And here is today's news about love.

According to those maestros of the eccentric at FlashNews, scientists believe that true love can be found by dating, and discarding, 12 people. Number 13 is the lucky one! Link. FlashNews was not specific what the scientists had been smoking.

According to the latest edition of Britain's venerable The Economist magazine, scientists think that "understanding the neurochemical pathways that regulate social attachments may help to deal with defects in people's ability to form relationships". Link. These guys really need to smoke something. We may have to wait for the tabloid version of this story to understand what is going on.

According to a recent article in another venerable magazine, Time, "As far as your genes are concerned, your principal job while you're alive is to conceive offspring, bring them to adulthood and then obligingly die so you don't consume resources better spent on the young." Link. Whoa! I'd just like to say, "while you're alive" is redundant and don't forget to cancel your subscription to Time before you conscientiously die.

The granddaddy of publishing venerability, London's The Times, reports that scientists have discovered that love can be forever. That's more like it! "Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have shown that the traditionally sorry path of sexual love - a downward spiral from lust to indifference over the space of a decade - is not an iron rule. Scanning the brains of people who have been together for 20 years, the scientists found that about one in 10 couples still display elements of 'limerence', the psychologists’ term for the obsessive behaviour of new lovers." Link. Excuse me, I'm off to murmur sweet limerences in my wife's ear.

According to the sweetly named links2love.com, there are scientists working on the physiology of kissing, in particular what is behind the warm and fuzzy feelings that accompany a good kiss. Link. That sounds so romantic. "It's all about dopamine, neurotransmitters, pleasure receptors and the like," the scientists say. That sounds so scientific.

According to scientificblogging.com, scientists at four US and Canadian universities have been examining the sexual habits of women whose chins are above or below average in size, and have concluded that we should stay away from those with big chins as they have a tendency to cheat. Link. Is this serious? Apparently so. The results have been published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, a publication which, we suggest, is still working towards venerable status.

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