Valentine’s Day Cluster-Funk

I know what you’re all thinking. “If only I had some Valentine’s Day links I wouldn’t be such a lonely shell of a human being.” I mean, I’m not, but you probably are. XOXO, etc.

Elephant Love Connection

Nam Choke, an eight-year-old male Asian elephant (…), and Boonrawd, a seven-year-old female, form a heart shape with their trunks at an elephant camp in Ayutthaya, Thailand (…)

LINK/IMAGE (National Geographic)

The Eye Is The Window To The Central Nervous System

Interesting fact for Valentine’s Day: The retina is the only part of the central nervous system that is visible from outside the body.

LINK (Mind Hacks)

Quirkyalone

quirkyalone: noun/adj. A person who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) and generally prefers to be alone rather than dating for the sake of being in a couple. With unique traits and an optimistic spirit; a sensibility that transcends relationship status.

LINK (via David Seah)

Chemistry.com

Match.com’s new science-oriented online dating service favors brain chemistry over interests and values.

We gravitate to people who are similar to us, and we marry people who are similar. But that’s not really what keeps people together. Once you know that you’re both Episcopalians, you don’t have to go through this for the next 40 years. It’s been established: We really stick with people because of personality traits rather than values.
Helen Fisher, Chemistry.com personality test designer

LINK (Seed)