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The Science of Love
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."
I don't know about you.. but you won't catch me going to any doctor asking for a love injection!
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The one day of the year where I am not the tarket market.
Love injection? No need. Attractiveness injection? Now there's a seller.
But don't all guys give love injections?
Kevin
"It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in" O. Nash
As Dr Fisher explains, "you can feel deep attachment for a long-term spouse, while you feel romantic love for someone else, while you feel the sex drive in situations unrelated to either partner." This independence means it is possible to love more than one person at a time, a situation that leads to jealousy, adultery and divorce--though also to the possibilities of promiscuity and polygamy, with the likelihood of extra children, and thus a bigger stake in the genetic future, that those behaviours bring. As Dr Fisher observes, "We were not built to be happy but to reproduce."
Ah, that explains politics in Utah.
> the victim i keep in my basement *will* love me. ;)
Don't you love yourself already?
Injections cause love? This is great news! Finally I can love my abductor, Conner, who's keeping me in his basement.
Its amazing how research these days has such a superb sense of timing.
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I believe in freedom of thought. I have no other choice.
Found in fortune file.
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.
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How long before some conservative mad scientist :) releases a retrovirus which makes us all pair-bond for life, inescapably? If I were still with my first love, I'd have to fucking kill myself now.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Well, this axiom holds...
Attraction = Lust + i*Love
Lust is the "real" part, and "Love" is the imaginary part.
Evolution of Language Through The Ages: 6000 BC : ungh, grrf, booga 2000 AD : grep, awk, sed
an enamored vole following me around?
KFG
...have to be administered directly to the cardiac muscle? If so, that would explain Cupid's strange behavior.
Me: "Boss, please don't send my job to India."
[Poke!]
Boss: "Oww! What was that?.....Don't worry darling, you are safe with me."
Table-ized A.I.
I rather see an article on the science of casual sex.
Although, when she's in heat, you'd rather wish her to stop, as this can get quite exhausting, but just in case...
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Lollipops and candy usually work for me!
..... would you like to see my puppies =)
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(i am not trolling i don't think)
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
wait, i thought beer was already invented.
~To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. -Yann Martel
...Is the ink they print money with.
"Calling Dr. Love, I got the cure your thinking of" Sorry, I may be too old.
A: A sixpack.
"Alcohol: Helping men get sex for thousands of years."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The difference betwen Windows and Linux is just the order and quantity of bits in RAM. Every human experience is just the difference of a few chemicals in the brain. But why go to such lengths, when love (or lust) can be injected into your target with $10 of organic chemicals, inserted as flowers into her hands? Try it today, in a cocktail therapy with labial skin molecules applied topically.
"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"
(my love is chimerical)
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I'm stoked that I understand that lightning is a result of static, and not God striking down his wrath...
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.
"Vole" is just love spelled sideways, sort of. I buy it.
> which can be controlled with injections
The injections for humans are chocolate, booze and pot.
Someone once said, "Love is for animals. Only humans can truly appreciate lust."
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Oh, yeah. Forgot that humans are soooo great. We do all kinds of things that other animals can't do. Like, see, hear, smell, touch, and think! Yep, we humans sure are superior.
*Yawn*
Call me when all non-human animals start their first World War.
This paper is published in The Economist magazine as basic research behind the Bush administration's $1B program for oxytocin in Halliburton "flu injections" program to "defend the traditional institution of marriage".
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A new finding has been made in the field of mathematics: it's just electrical currents. Scientists studied computers engaging in mathematics and found that if they disabled the electric currents inside, it ceased the behavior. When they re-enabled the electric currents, the behavior resumed. They have done other studies on other species of computers, including small nomadic units and large plant-like machines which couldn't even move, and found the same results. They have concluded that "mathematics is nothing more than electrical currents". They dismissed those who specialize in the field of mathematics as weasel-wording when they described that mathematics is at a different abstraction level than electrical currents. The mathematicians pointed to a similarly-flawed study about human love, but the scientists had already stopped listening.
But I don't want to have a relationship with a vole.
At least, not tonight...
Breast milk kegger at my place, bring leather pants and an open mind. Later, Vitamin D
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Yup. Sounds like crack to me. ;~)
"Call me when all non-human animals start their first World War."
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.
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