Some of the more interesting papers in Pubmed Central that reference Valentine’s Day

Earlier this AM I posted to twitter a brief comment about articles in Pubmed Central that reference Valentine’s Day.

Yes, there are 120 papers that come up in Pubmed Central w/ a search for “Valentine’s Day”shar.es/fSi8b
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) February 14, 2012

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Kay Thaney’s response caught my eye b/c she called attention to some of the more interesting papers from my link:

@phylogenomics @David_Dobbs uplifting. among results, “sweet nothings?”, “parasuicide”,”diabetes bingo” + “HIV epidemics”. #loveisintheair
— Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney) February 14, 2012

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So I thought I would post a few of the links here:

• Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter
• What’s in a message? Delivering sexual health promotion to young people in Australia via text messaging
• St Valentine’s Day
• Priming the Holiday Spirit: Persistent Activation due to Extra-Experimental Experiences
• Diabetes Bingo: Research Prioritization with the Filipino Community
• A new national holiday? My vote’s for World Toilet Day
• A case of selective impairment of encyclopaedic numerical knowledge or ‘when December 25th is no longer Christmas day, but ‘20 + 5’ is still 25’
• ‘Finish your soup’: Counterproductive effects of pressuring children to eat on intake and affect
• Bio-bling: making jewellery from human tissue
• Explicit ads seek to halt rise in sexual diseases
• The physician as erotomanic object.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen