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Happy Valentine's Day from The NewsHouse
By NewsHouse Staff
February 13, 2012 - 5:15pm
Syracuse University students, young children from the Bernice Wright lab school and The NewsHouse lead producers wax poetic about love.

Valentine's Day has never been simple. Everyone has an opinion somewhere in between on what they think love is. Accordingly, the NewsHouse decided to ask, because clearly we can't pin it down, right? We talked to the Bernice M. Wright Child Development Lab School to get their opinions as well as the views of SU students across the hill. Read the staff's answers below:

Feeling pain? A lover's picture could help
By Rashaud Thomas
February 24, 2011 - 8:04pm
New research shows partner's image may reduce pain.

If your head hurts or body aches the one closest to your heart might be the remedy.

New research shows that pictures of loved ones can reduce pain in the same vain as narcotics like cocaine, reports the Daily Mail.

The research, out of Stanford University, found that looking at pictures of a romantic partner can reduce pain anywhere from 36 to 44 percent while intense discomfort dropped 13 percent.

High on love
By Luisa Ardila
October 12, 2010 - 7:52pm
A study at Syracuse University has found that there is a clear similarity between the sensations we experience when we are in love and those caused by drugs.

Psychologists from Syracuse University, West Virginia University and Switzerland have published a report on the Journal of Sexual Medicine, which says that love and drugs cause similar reactions in the brain. 

According to The Post-Standard, the study found that falling in love incorporates a complex cerebral network and the release of dopamine, similarly to the effect cocaine has on the brain.

Valentine's Day with Joe Blum
By Erica Sanderson
February 13, 2010 - 4:45pm
After years of rejection, Joe Blum finally nabs a Valentine.

Joe Blum delivers all his best pick-up lines in his conquest to win a date on Valentine's Day. But his suave suit, nice bouquet and sweet smile isn't impressing the ladies. Just when he begins to lose all hope, Blum bumps into fate, and a girl named Bridget. Watch the greatest Syracuse love story unfold.  

Lovesick on Valentine's Day
By Eric Vilas-Boas
February 10, 2010 - 10:52pm
Joe Blum finds love just in time for Valentine's Day in an Orange Shorts Production.

February 14th is the day we can be closer to others than molecular bonds allow. It's also the day we can spend lonelier than anyone on the planet. We welcome it with our current partners when we aren’t cursing our ex-lovers for dumping us. We crave it as much as we dread it. Yes, Valentine’s Day is upon us yet again, and The NewsHouse brings you this special Orange Shorts Production to commemorate it.
 
If you want to find love like Joe Blum, here are our tips for a romantic and successful first date: