Valentine's Day
gregladen | February 5, 2013Valentine’s Day is coming up, so it is time to think about kissing. Pursuant to this, Sheril Kirshenbaum, author of “The Science of Kissing,” has made the Kindle version of her excellent book available at a discounted price through February 18th. The book is here: The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us. (Sheril is also the co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future.)
The Science of Kissing
Further details as well as a video (don’t worry, it’s work safe) are here, on Sheril’s site.
Also pursuant to Valentine’s Day, I thought it…
carlyo | February 10, 2012
By Larry Bock
Founder and organizer, USA Science & Engineering Festival
It's both funny and remarkable how some of the most simple and natural acts we do each day are teeming in science.
Take for example, the kiss.
A kiss, especially a passionate one, sets off a cascade of emotions and chemical reactions in our brain and body that would surprise most of us if we knew the whole story.
Well, just in time for Valentine's Day, Sheril Kirshenbaum, science writer and author of the recent book, The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us, sheds light on exactly what goes on…
cevans | February 14, 2011
In 2007, my friends at m ss ng peces and I started work on a new Internet-television show called RESET, for the Sundance Channel. The idea was to make a show designed for computers to watch, that could teach them what it was like to be human -- a show that, while ostensibly made for human beings, would also nourish our computers' circuit boards with generous descriptions of the richness of human experience. Obviously this is just an artistic conceit, and not, as far as I know, a practicable reality, but it does raise a lot of interesting questions. You probably spend your entire day within…
cwilcox | February 14, 2009hat tip Linda Lin
Some good science/love quotes:"In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence."â P. L. Berger
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."â Henry Louis Mencken
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."âBlaise Pascal
"Love is a better teacher than duty."âAlbert Einstein
"To make love work, understand where it comes from.""Falling in love may be natural, but that doesn't mean it's not exceptional."âCarl Zimmer
And, while I'm at it...
According to Heisenberg's Uncertanty Principle of…
sheril | February 6, 2009
It's February once again, just a week away from that very special holiday in which we celebrate the one we love (or bemoan the greeting card industry). Last year, I composed a post called The Science of Kissing provoking all sorts of interesting discussions on and offline. Now that I'm about to participate in the upcoming AAAS symposium of the same title, let's talk osculation (the scientific term for kissing). Here's the original entry...
I expect most of us hope to experience the 'ever-elusive, out-of-the-ballpark-home-run, earth-shattering, perfect kiss,' but what exactly is it? How…
grrlscientist | February 14, 2008tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them! (Okay, this is the last one).
Orphaned image!
grrlscientist | February 14, 2008tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them!
Thanks to Ironic Sans.
grrlscientist | February 14, 2008tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them!
Thanks to Gia's Blog.
sporte | February 14, 2008Believe it or not, this is a DNA kiss.
Have a loverly Valentine's DNA!
(And just in case you're wondering, yes, I did put it on a coffee mug.)
grrlscientist | February 14, 2008tags: mandles, gifts for men, valentine's day, streaming video
Don't know what to get your man for Valentine's Day? How about Mandles®, the candles made for men with scents like "Hardware Store", "A1 Steak Sauce", "Burrito Fart" and "Chuck Norris Sweat" [1:52]
grrlscientist | February 14, 2008tags: valentine's day, scientist valentines, holidays, holidaze, e-cards
Since I have you to wish me a happy valentine's day, I thought I'd share a selection of scientist valentines with you, so a new one will pop up every two hours! I hope you like them!
Thanks to Ironic Sans.