The ladies of the Internet talk show TMI discuss when to say "I love you" and their first loves. This article on Salon may have the right answer - everyone is different and when it is right will be a little different for everyone. Suite 101 has a list of 64 ways to say "I Love You."
A class on how to fall in love? Robert Epstein, a California college professor at UC San Diego, is teaching students about intimacy and how to fall in love. Some people could use the help. You might want to avoid anyone who gets a bad grade in this class. Hattie Kauffman reports for the Early Show.
Here's the trailer for VH1's reality-tv show Tough Love. Steve Ward of MasterMatchmakers.com is the host of the show. He tricked the girls at the beginning by pretending to be participating in a speed dating round. Each one of the girls has a specific problem. In the premiere episode, the girls also had to walk in front of three guys who gave their initial brutally honest and shallow thoughts about each girl. You can see the premiere here.
Philadelphia local Steve Ward of MasterMatchmakers.com is the host of a new VH1 show called Tough Love. He will take eight women through something called a Tough Love Boot Camp. He will be joined on the show by his mom and founder of Master Matchmakers, JoAnn Ward. The show is promising "brutal honesty" but it's already offending some - see here and here.
CNN reports that Stony Brook University researchers recently looked at the brain scans of couples that had spent 20 years together and found 10% of them had brain scans similar to the scans of people who have just fallen in love.
Using brain scans, researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have discovered a small number of couples respond with as much passion after 20 years together as most people only do during the early throes of romance, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.
The researchers scanned the brains of couples together for 20 years and compared them with results from new lovers, the Sunday Times said.
About 10 percent of the mature couples had the same chemical reactions when shown photographs of their loved ones as those just starting out.
The evidence somewhat contradicts earlier studies that found romantic love fades completely after 10 years. In this case it still faded for 90% of those studied, which seems like quite a bit.
One day humans may have "real" relationships with androids and fall in love. It remains to be seen if robots will ever be able to fall in or out of love with humans. A project called Project Aiko is underway to create the perfect companion. Designer Le Trung says Aiko is not a sex doll. In fact, Aiko will slap you if you get too frisky. Trung's project needs funding but with all the things Aiko can do already he's likely to get it. She recongize objects, speak English and Japenese, tell the weather and read the New York Times.
We are well past Valentine's Day now but these t-shirts from Think Geek may be of interest to people head-over-heels in love with each other. The closer the two people wearing the shirts get to one another the more the hearts on these shirts light up.
Staying healthy is the key to keeping yourself alive. Video game characters know this all too well. When your red heart gauge reaches zero... you die. For non-bitmap humans like you this is more of a challenge. But luckily after extensive study at ThinkGeek labs we've determined that people feel best when they are in close proximity to something that they adore. Don't understand? Well luckily for you we've created this amazing 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt to illustrate.
Buy one of these glowing shirts for yourself, and gift one to your significant other (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, fembot 2000...). During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. Hey... you're depressed and in need of a recharge. But get within hugging distance of your significant other wearing the matching shirt and suddenly the hearts on both of your shirts start to light up until you're fully powered up. Go too far astray from the source of your affections and you'll drop back down to two and a half hearts again. Got it?
The WSJ's Sam Schechner reports (in the video below) on a study looking at the brains of people who have just fallen in compared to people who claim to have stayed madly in love for over a decade. The romantic love area of those who have just fallen in love occurs in a very primitive part of the brain - the ventral tegmental area (VTA). The activation levels of people who say they have been in love for ten years or more was the same as people who had only just fallen love so apparently some people do retain that "new love" experience. CNN has an article on love and the brain.
Hollywood writers are striking to make sure they get much needed and much deserved payments for new media content. Striking means they have to picket and carry signs. The Daily Newsreports that actors and writers picketing together presents an opportunity for singles. There was even an impromptu event organized called "Singles' Strike."
"I'm looking for a low-maintenance female who doesn't enjoy the finer things in life," he joked Thursday outside the Fox studio gate in Century City.
The writer for NBC's "My Name is Earl" was joined by about 50 other people for the impromptu event dubbed "Singles' Strike."
Charles Heit, a writer for the Sci Fi Channel's "Painkiller Jane," said he was dreading picket duty until he met Cara Delizia, a petite actress. Then it didn't seem so bad.
The two planned to go to dinner and a movie after putting down their picket signs.
"It's all about solidarity, right?" Delizia said.
If this strike is a long one perhaps there will be a few marriages that result from these picket line meetups.
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