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Analyzing OkCupid's vast store of behavioral data yields some interesting—and perhaps counterintuitive—advice for online daters.
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As a result of its dataset, OKCupid is in a unique position to comment on dating and relationships in our culture.
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With marketplace businesses, you want to make entry and exit as efficient as possible. Putting up a pay wall is the exact opposite of what you should be doing
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OkCupid records and publishes data on the interactions, profiles, and preferences of its members. This information has plenty of implications for the social-scientific quest to understand human behavior.
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A conversation with the co-founder of OKCupid.
The physicist explains why other universes in the mulitverse could have many more dimensions—and could comprise Einstein's "Mind of God."
Where once only two rocks marked a sleepy border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, recent days have witnessed an escalation in tension between the Central American neighbors over the tiny […]
As rapid prototyping technologies become more affordable and accessible, we could be creating more and more of the products we use every day in our homes.
Yesterday, the LA Times ran a feature describing separate communication efforts by the American Geophysical Union and a small band of climate scientists-turned-activists. The effort by AGU seeks to engage […]
The Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, London was packed to overflowing last night with a galaxy of stars - and ordinary footsoldiers - who had all come to pay tribute to the late […]
"A startup called RockMelt on Sunday launched the beta version of an entirely new type of Web browser with an impeccable pedigree." The Daily Beast reports.
"Blogging is an ego-intensive process." The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder says he will not miss the navel-gazing—todays is his last day as a blogger.
Military veteran and critic of American militarism, Andrew Bacevich says the future of American foreign policy is bleak should the long war against terrorism continue.
If Republicans want to slash the federal budget to reduce national debt, they should cut America's massive military spending, says The Economist's Democracy in America blog.
Universities and computer companies like I.B.M. are making progress on quantum computers, superfast machines that obey the laws of quantum mechanics.
The linguist turned activist says the U.S. is vocal about its commitment to peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories but that its actions suggest otherwise.
British scientists celebrate a groundbreaking experiment that generated temperatures a million times hotter than the Sun's center, reports The Independent.
Given incentives like product discounts, consumers are proving eager to hand over mobile phone data to businesses that want to track their movements.
The National Interest calls Bush's memoir a record of how a dauphin took the world's leading power and left it crippled. Is Bush's legacy one with the nation's?
Responding to Zadie Smith's recent criticism of Facebook, Jonah Lehrer says online networks are evidence of our humanity—our drive to be social with one another.