Special Issue: For the Love of Valentine's Day

Since I missed posting on the ridiculousness of Valentine's Day, I wanted to revisit this crazy thing called love with 3 interesting articles:

1. An Affair Of the Head: They Say Love Is All About Brain Chemistry. Will You Be Dopamine?
This article by Neely Tucker in the Washington Post, describes how "It's all about dopamine, baby, this One Great True Love, this passionate thing we'd burn down the house and blow up the car and drive from Houston to Orlando just to taste on the tip of the tongue."

2. The man behind St. Valentine's Day
Written by the illustrious Eric Wilson, this article explains how "The patron saint of young people, lovers, happy marriages, beekeepers, and greeting card manufacturers (really!), St. Valentine was a Roman priest and martyr 'who after having cured and instructed many persons was beaten with clubs and beheaded' under the reign of Emperor Claudius around the year 269." Sooooo romantic!

3. Scientists Agree: It's in His Kiss
Wired.com indulges in why "Over 90 percent of human society engages in what, if you get right down to it, seems like a very strange thing to do: putting faces together and trading spit."

I, personally, take all of my love advice from Tracy Jordon - "Tell her you want her to donate her body to science, and you science." What every woman wants to hear...or you could just go to Starbucks.