Jason Cooper is, professionally, an Online Community Coordinator for kaboom.org. Personally, he is a Detroit to DC transplant, and all around B.M.F. He secretly wants to be an internet celebrity.
Okcupid’s blog drops another amazing batch of data related to the habits to people using its online dating service. Really interesting insights on how people lie about their income and the behaviors of bisexuals on the site.
Also some really interesting data on how people lie about their height. People, according to their data, generally add two inches to their height. Guys, whose height gets closed to 6 feet, round up more and more.
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Michael Kinsley, “Sex Lives of Supreme Court Justices” (via thetimelime, tart-tart)
SCALIA = SEX MANIAC.
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That’s what she said.
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I don’t get it. Why would you care?
So does this mean that people that support same-sex marriage might vote against universal health care? :)
Chart of the Day: “Explicit Support for Same-Sex Marriage by State and Age” (pdf) by Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Created using data collected for a joint paper on gay rights.
Prof. Lax breaks it down:
Seven states cross the 50% mark overall as of our current estimates, but the generation gap is huge. If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.
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Dr. Pek Van Andel, who won an Ig Nobel Prize for making the first MRI images of a couple’s sex organs while those organs were in use, also made a video of the phenomenon.
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