The Science of Love 315
Xyde writes "Economist.com has a story just in time for Valentine's day called 'The Science of Love'. Presumably the difference between love and lust is little more than a bunch of chemicals, which can be controlled with injections (in voles anyway). Quite an interesting read."
No thank you! (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, valentines day. (Score:5, Funny)
Love injection? No need. Attractiveness injection? Now there's a seller.
Do it yourself (Score:5, Funny)
Utah (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, that explains politics in Utah.
Re:Great news. (Score:2, Funny)
Don't you love yourself already?
Great news. (Score:5, Funny)
just in time (Score:5, Funny)
Its amazing how research these days has such a superb sense of timing.
A poem. (Score:5, Funny)
Tell me why the stars do shine
Tell me why the ivy twines
Tell me why the sky's so blue
And I will tell you why I love you.
Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine
Phototropism makes ivy twine
Rayleigh Scattering makes sky so blue
Sexual hormones are why I love you.
I find it kind of frightening (Score:5, Funny)
The difference between love and lust ... (Score:5, Funny)
Attraction = Lust + i*Love
Lust is the "real" part, and "Love" is the imaginary part.
Why on earth would I want . . . (Score:5, Funny)
KFG
Do these injections... (Score:5, Funny)
Strategy B (Score:5, Funny)
[Poke!]
Boss: "Oww! What was that?.....Don't worry darling, you are safe with me."
Screw love (Score:5, Funny)
Silly. Think: Mare! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I would give half my life (Score:2, Funny)
Followed by
Some great new spam! (Score:5, Funny)
Are you one of the 80% of men who has a lower than average ability to get your partner to fall in love? Well boy do we have a product for you! Liagra! With Liagra you can finally get both your secretary and your wife to love you and each other!! only 6 easy payments of $49.95!
i wonder how long before we see this
er... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The difference between love and lust ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No thank you! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great news. (Score:2, Funny)
The ultimate love chemical.... (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a Kiss song (Score:1, Funny)
The heck with injections (Score:5, Funny)
A: A sixpack.
"Alcohol: Helping men get sex for thousands of years."
Re:The difference between love and lust ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The ultimate love chemical.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The difference between love and lust ... (Score:2, Funny)
love is chemical (Score:3, Funny)
"When I see the way you paint your lips
and I smell your perfume
when I see the brand new color
that you've dyed your hair, too
I know, you know, it's more than physical
My love, my love, my love, love is chemical"
- Lou Reed, "My Love Is Chemical" [tiki.ne.jp]
(my love is chimerical)
Re:Why on earth would I want . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Enamored vole: The self-propelled snack!
Re:Great news. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe too far.. (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe you would be even more stoked if you understood that lightning is a result of differential charges between clouds and the surface, not the clouds and the surface rubbing up against each other.
Oh, and the lightning bolt itself isn't God's wrath. God's wrath is when a bolt 'randomly' hits YOU.
Re:I'm not sure... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I find it kind of frightening (Score:3, Funny)
If God is Love, and a scientist can give it or take it away, does this mean the scientist is playing God, or IS God????
This Sentence: (Score:3, Funny)
The injections for humans are chocolate, booze and pot.
Someone once said, "Love is for animals. Only humans can truly appreciate lust."
Re:I'm not sure... (Score:1, Funny)
*Yawn*
Call me when all non-human animals start their first World War.
The Economist? (Score:3, Funny)
New finding: Mathematics is just electrical curren (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm not sure... (Score:3, Funny)
At least, not tonight...
In related news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The difference between love and lust ... (Score:5, Funny)
L = (BSTG / BSGF) ^ (BE / DV) * (NS + 1)
Where L is the Lust you currently feel, BSTG the the Bra size of your target, BSGF is MAX_BREASTSIZE(girlfriends) you already have, BE is the number of Beers you already drank, NS is the number of months you've had no sex and DV is the number of divorces you had been through.
As you can clearly see, Beer (or other alcohololic drinks) and divorces have the highest influence. But as shown in the next formula, alcohol may also have a bad side effect:
AS = (V + 1) * L / (B + 1) ^ 3
AS is the ability to have sex, L is the lust and B is the number of Beers you had (which is very likely more than in the first formula). V is the number of Viagra's you took. You see, the more you drink, the more V you must swallow - although i'd recommend against V when you drunk B for reasons of SF (the survival factor of that night) because:
SF = (100 - AG / B ^ V) * RN
Where SF is your survival factor, AG is your age, B the Beers, V the Viagras and RN a boolean (0 or 1) to remember your spouse's name the morning after...
Therefore everyone claiming that having one-night-stands is easy isn't either
a) drinking alcohol
b) a good mathematician
c) or just plain lucky so far
Greetings from the statictical front
Rene
Re:I gotta challenge this one (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm not sure... (Score:3, Funny)
Now, this is not *world* war, but war in a sense.
If you ever get to Lake Cumberland Kentucky, go to the lodge near State Dock some evening in May or June around 8pm. Thats when the guests are leaving the buffet and walk out onto the deck, food in hand, for the evenings entertainment.
About 20 feet below, every evening, Groundhogs and Raccoons battle each other over position, and cute postures, trying to get food from patrons. This often becomes bloody, and the raccoons have taken to using weapons.
They will run with sticks, or brushes in their mouths, and push the groundhogs off the stumps, which gives the raccoons a better chance to "impress" the crowd, and get food thrown at them.
The groundhogs upped the ante, and *ate* the stumps down to nubs, eliminating the raccoons "performance stages".
The Raccoons then went to plan B, and started sending their *babies* in to fend for food. The babies come out, everyone "ooh's and ahhh's" and throws food. Then the babies take the food back to the adults, who wait just at the treeline.
Not to be outdone, the groundhogs began digging tunnels with entrances out near the patio and deck, under the bushes. When the food is tossed, they dart out (as well as a groundhog can dart) and snatch it before the baby raccoons can get it.
It calmed down a little in the late 90's when the lodge started making an honest effort to keep people from feeding this battle of animal will.
It still goes on however. Last time I was there, about two years ago, the raccoons had taken to climbing up the gutter drains, and walking up to customers and then just *tugging* on their clothing until they were *handed* food. (wimps).
Since the groundhogs don't climb so well, I dunno how they will beat this tactic. Although they still get their fair share, as many people are (and probably should be) unwilling to hand feed wild animals. Therefore what is thrown to the ground still goes to the groundhogs.
If thats not animal warfare, I don't know what is.
By the way, the groundhogs really did gnaw those stumps down to nothing. They stopped as soon as the stumps were gone, and have not been seen gnawing on any other wood. Just the "stages" that the raccoons performed on.
Re:er... (Score:1, Funny)