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    Love Can Make You Smarter

    by Claire Cameron Feb 14, 2016 2 minutes

    Elsa Einstein and her husband, Albert, on the SS Rotterdam in New York. (1921)Wikicommons

    ove is supposed to make you stupid. We’re used to seeing the lover as a mooning fool, blind to his lover’s faults and the goings-on of the outside world, or even as a person who has lost all sense of rationality or propriety, driven to a kind of madness. There’s science

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