The eye on the wall spots the selfish gene. A simple experiment in a typical office kitchen takes us inside the human mind, writes Ian Sample. HONESTY may well be the best policy, but it often deserts us when no one is watching, psychologists say. Experiments...

If one were asked to describe love, I imagine they would attempt to convey blue skies with fluffy clouds, fluid harps and lovers embracing with whispering good-byes. My advice to those in this love coma and to those misguided souls who think that the word love in itself is a blanket statement that warrants no thought or movement after the fact that those three words pass their lips, is that love is not a description. Love is a verb, an action word. Action means doing, saying, and moving. Love is more than passion and an ecstatic I love you too.