Valentine's Day
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You’ve Got Chemistry With Your Valentine’s Day Date: The Science of Falling in Love
Picture this: it’s a cold February day in Ithaca, and you’re sitting in a cafe sipping a steaming drink over your homework. By chance, you look up from your problem set and meet the gaze of a cute stranger across the room. Your heart starts beating fast and you experience that all-too-familiar feeling of butterflies in your stomach. As you debate whether to approach this person, your nucleus accumbens — commonly known as the brain’s “reward center” — starts releasing dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with pleasurable experiences like getting a good grade or eating delicious food, according to Prof. Alex Ophir, psychology. At the same time, the hormones oxytocin —…
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Swiping Left: Valentine’s Day for the Cynics
Just like that, we’re approaching another Valentine’s Day. Another day of hefty and cringey paragraphs on Instagram, expensive dinners full of awkward, lovey-dovey small talk and expensive (allegedly “marked-down”) chocolates, flowers and Hallmark cards. The holiday of overconsumption and exploitative consumerism has arrived. And, paradoxically, I’m excited. Every year, my feelings about Valentine’s Day fluctuate, but my general attitude remains the same: it’s the same dose of insincere and superficial, year after year. This time around, I’m feeling relatively calm — though ask me again after seeing the explosion of newly formed (possible cringe) Cornell couples parading their love around campus, and I’ll probably have a different answer (and a…
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MULTIMEDIA | Sun on the Street: Valentine’s Day
MULTIMEDIA | Sun on the Street is The Sun’s multimedia series interviewing students around campus on a variety of relevant topics. Today, we asked students their Valentine’s Day plans! Hosted by Julia LeeFilmed by Julia Lee, Jamie Tang, Mirella BerkowitzEdited by Julia LeeProduced by Julia Lee, Jamie Tang, Mirella Berkowitz
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HATER FRIDAY | The Men on ‘Love is Blind: Habibi’
My life lacks drama in every respect, so I choose to watch people rip each other’s hair out on internationally acclaimed reality television shows. I also don’t gossip. But, more than anything, I love bashing the problematic people on these shows — especially the men. One of my most recent reality binges was Love is Blind: Habibi, the Emirati spinoff of the multinational Netflix reality franchise. This series, hosted by celebrity couple Khaled Saqer and Elham Ali, follows singles connecting and committing to marriage prior to meeting in person. Contestants speed date in “pods” — small, furnished rooms with a shared wall — without seeing one another. Eventually, if the…