http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-27-2004-52238.asp
Chemistry of love
As it turns out love can be somewhat controlled by chemistry. The common symptoms of love, including sweaty palms, shaky knees and general restlessness, are caused by a natural chemical, Phenylethylamine. Its release from the brain can be triggered from deceptively simple actions like the meeting of the eyes or touching of the hands. Heady emotions, racing pulses and heavy breathing results, and all these are clinically explained as an overdose of this chemical. For instance, chocolate is known to have very high level of this chemical. The latest discovery in this field shows that the arrangement of molecules in this chemicals and the whole world is excited because now humans can actually concoct love potions. In other words, humans could isolate the chemical compound and making drugs that can induce love. What would happens is that an individual would take the drug, and than fall in love with the next person you see.
This new discovery is a large step for discovery the reasons of love and how in the future it might even be possible to control love with a set of drugs which would lead to humans even having more power over the world than ever before.
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10 comments:
To make this article better I think it would be cool to have one the of the researchers of this drug to comment on it. Also, it would be better if the article explained more as to why the drug was like this.
One thing I learned from this summary is that one day humans can make a person fall in love just by taking the phenylethylamine chemical.
1. good details
2. interesting topic
3. short and sweet
1. tell what the drug did
2. how did they come up with this
1. its really cool to connect chemistry and love-i never thought of that
3.-very good information
-did not make many grammatical errors
-it was a cool topic
2.-could have gone in depth on a few more of the topics
-could have added some quotes or analysis on the subject
1. I learned that humans will be able to make people love each other in the new future with chemicals.
1- interesting topic
2- good length summary
3- good quality facts
1- a comment/quote from a resercher on this topic would be good
2- more detail in some facts would be good
1- I learned that chocolate is known to have a very high level of this "love" inducing chemical
3 Easy to understand
2 Good topic
1 Not many errors
2 Could have a little more information on the drug.
1 Give the name of the person who researched this chemical.
1 Learned that people can make each other fall in love with one another through chemicals.
3- very interesting topic
- easy to understand
- right to the point
2- Could explain better how phenylathylamine works in the body.
- Could explain how to control love using some set of drugs.
1- I learned that the common symptoms of love are caused by a natural chemical called Phenylethylamine.
1. Good facts
2. Was straight to the point
3. Very interesting I have never read an article like this
1. Could have broken up into paragraphs
2. Could have added some numerical facts
1. I learned that Phenylethlamine causes the symptons of love. It is a natural chemical in your body
3.-There were not many grammatical errors in the summary.
-The article was interesting.
-The summary made the topic very easy to understand.
2.-The review could have been broken up into paragraphs, rather than one single long paragraph.
-There could have been more details used in the summary.
1. I learned that chemistry is involved in the feelings of love, and that it could be controlled.
3 Things I liked
-Though not a politically or environmentally relevant topic, it is always interesting to learn about how chemistry pertains to our everyday lives.
-The article is good in branching all the common symptoms of "love" back to one chemical, thus proving it's point effectively
- It is interesting to learn that it might be possible to make a love potion after all.
2 Things that could have been improved.
-Since this is a chemistry blog, I feel there should have been a greater emphasis on the chemical Phenylethylamine and what it does.
-I feel the article was written in a bit of haste and could have used some editing.
1 thing I learned.
-I was not even aware that scientists were studying the concept of "love", so this article was especially interesting. I am now curious to find out more of the advancements that scientists are making in this field.
1. I liked reading this article because it involves controlling the human mind and body so much.
2. It is a topic in chemistry that I have never read about.
3. It shows the deep understanding that scientists have of chemicals in the body.
1. You could have explained how the chemical triggers this “instant love”
2. You could have also had an example of someone who had tried the drug.
1. This was a very interesting article to read, and I learned more about how precisely we can now control our bodies and minds due to the research of scientists.
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