Ah, love how you turn our brains into mush balls
It’s another channel theme day here in the old SciHealth Channel. Since it’s February the theme is, you guessed it, love.
I was thinking about looking into the biochemistry of love. Then there is always chocolate. Lots of good science there. Yeah I know chocolate doesn’t have all the magic properties we once thought (hey I still feel better after a nice KitKat), although dark chocolate is now considered to be teaming with antioxidants. Really though, as un scientific as this sounds, there are some things that should remain a little mysterious.
Attraction. You can talk about like seeking like and pheromones, but that’s no fun. You can link love to the desire to reproduce the species and improve the gene pool. Boring. Love is just something that, while it fascinates scientists, is something to just savour in life.
Like most folks my age, I’ve loved, and lost. Girlfriends, a spouse (soon to be ex), a new partner. No matter what those first months of “love” are exciting and mysterious. As love matures, I think it becomes even more mysterious. How do we stay in love? How is it that a person becomes intertwined into our souls?
Of course this doesn’t even get into the love we feel for our children. Something that just is.
Yep, love is something that is mysterious, but I really don’t want to study or explain it. I like mystery.
BTW … check out the rest of the SciHealth posts on this month’s host … Lively Women. And leave a comment … exercise for comments … hmm.
tags: SciHealth Theme Day, Love
February 9th, 2007 at 7:04 am
“the desire to reproduce the species and improve the gene pool.” Boring???
Boring?????
BORING????????
Tris - TRIS - ooohhhh Trrriiissss….. helloooooo
February 10th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Well it’s all been done before, that’s what I meant.
Here I try to be philosophical and what do I get!
February 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
[…] I think this exemplifies the point I was trying to make in my Theme Day post last week. Sometimes there are things greater than “just knowing” at stake. The power of a couple dying together locked in each others’ arms is tremendous. You wonder what was happening. Volcano? Flood? Attack by rival band? Or maybe she caught him being a little too friendly with the chick in the next hut over and she’s throttling the life out of him. Eh, let’s forget that last one. It’s nicer to think of them the other way. […]