300 love letters... a rather public declaration of love, don't you think? So I'm telling this boy, one of the boys that lots of these love letters are to, about this project. "I'm writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the outside of the envelopes, so that the mailman, and presumably whoever the recipient lives with, will be ... Read full entry

The mathematics of finding the love of your life based on the formula for winning a game show on TV: Without over complicating matters, mathematical analysis suggests that you should survey the scene for 37 per cent (1/e equals roughly 0.37) of the way through the period that you have set yourself to find a partner. Supposing that you start dating at the age of 16 and aim to ... Read full entry

Are office romances a development of the last couple of years? I don't think so, yet the line "these days it is unusual to find someone who has never had an office romance", would suggest that is the case. Put single (or, yes, even attached) people together in just about any regular setting, such as a workplace, and romance will bloom. There's nothing new, or "these days", about it. After ... Read full entry

Romantic love, which has made no "scientific sense" to date, has been found to serve an evolutionary function... to, in case you haven't guessed, stop us playing around. It seems to work... most of the time anyway. "Psychologists have long had a problem explaining the functions of romantic love: a very strong emotion that sometimes seems to take over our lives and lead to what appear to be irrational ... Read full entry