The data shown above come from the Facebook dating app, Are You Interested (AYI), which works like this: Users in search of someone for a date or for sex flip through profiles of other users and, for each one, click either “yes” (I like what I see) or “skip” (show me the next profile). When the answer is “yes,” the other user is notified and has the opportunity to respond. It’s very similar to another dating app, Tinder.
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The graphic shows what percentage of people responded to a “yes,” based on the gender and ethnicity of both parties (the data are only for opposite-sex pairs of people). Unsurprisingly, most “yes’s” go unanswered, but there are patterns: For example, Asian women responded to white men who “yessed” them 7.8% of the time, more often than they responded to any other race. On the other hand, white men responded to black women 8.5% of the time—less often than for white, Latino, or Asian women. In general, men responded to women about three times as often as women responded to men.
http://qz.com/149342/the-uncomfortable-racial-preferences-revealed-by-online-dating/
Man buys clay iPad, gets put in jail for wanting refund
It's custom in most stores to include the product in the box when it is sold to you.
We think of it as fair exchange, even if the price might sometimes be high.
A man in the United Kingdom, however, wondered about the equity of a transaction, when he bought an iPad from retailer Tesco.
You see, he had a small issue with the iPad: there wasn't actually an iPad in the box. Instead, as The Telegraph reported last week, there were pieces of clay.
Colin Marsh, who owns two bakeries, went back to Tesco, but his pleas fell on clay ears.
While he remonstrated about spending 470 British pounds (around $757) for a non-existent iPad, the staff reported him to the police.
A quick check had revealed that the iPad Tesco believed was in the box had already been activated.
The police called Marsh and invited him for a friendly chat. When he arrived, he was put in a jail cell for three hours.
Indeed, it took him two months to get allegations of fraud dropped.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57612839-37/man-buys-clay-ipad-gets-put-in-jail-for-wanting-refund/
We think of it as fair exchange, even if the price might sometimes be high.
A man in the United Kingdom, however, wondered about the equity of a transaction, when he bought an iPad from retailer Tesco.
You see, he had a small issue with the iPad: there wasn't actually an iPad in the box. Instead, as The Telegraph reported last week, there were pieces of clay.
Colin Marsh, who owns two bakeries, went back to Tesco, but his pleas fell on clay ears.
While he remonstrated about spending 470 British pounds (around $757) for a non-existent iPad, the staff reported him to the police.
A quick check had revealed that the iPad Tesco believed was in the box had already been activated.
The police called Marsh and invited him for a friendly chat. When he arrived, he was put in a jail cell for three hours.
Indeed, it took him two months to get allegations of fraud dropped.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57612839-37/man-buys-clay-ipad-gets-put-in-jail-for-wanting-refund/
Why I won't be buying an Xbox One or a PS4
This year brings the most boring games console launch in history. I don’t mean that in a hyperbolic, share-this-incendiary-link-with-your-friends way: having lived through and been an active combatant in four generations of console wars, like many former soldiers I have now become an advocate for peace.
The First Great World Console War broke out in the early Nineties between Sega’s Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Nintendo’s progress in the 1980s was more a swift annexation). Both manufacturers were then broadsided by the introduction of the Sony PlayStation in 1995. Since then we have descended into effective Cold War, an ever-escalating technological arms race between equally weighted armies with few casualties. While there was isolated fighting in smaller Handheld Console Wars, a gaming Vietnam where Pokémon waged a guerrilla war for children’s minds, the Fourth World Console War ended with over eighty million consoles sold for each belligerent. I’d make an analogy about PCs and the United Nations, but I think the metaphor is already stretched to breaking at this point.
http://www.newstatesman.com/games/2013/11/why-i-wont-be-buying-xbox-one-or-ps4
The First Great World Console War broke out in the early Nineties between Sega’s Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Nintendo’s progress in the 1980s was more a swift annexation). Both manufacturers were then broadsided by the introduction of the Sony PlayStation in 1995. Since then we have descended into effective Cold War, an ever-escalating technological arms race between equally weighted armies with few casualties. While there was isolated fighting in smaller Handheld Console Wars, a gaming Vietnam where Pokémon waged a guerrilla war for children’s minds, the Fourth World Console War ended with over eighty million consoles sold for each belligerent. I’d make an analogy about PCs and the United Nations, but I think the metaphor is already stretched to breaking at this point.
http://www.newstatesman.com/games/2013/11/why-i-wont-be-buying-xbox-one-or-ps4
This Is the Absolute Worst Place on Earth to Spend Your Bitcoins
Most people suffering from irregular bowel movements visit their doctor and get some expert advice. But if that requires too much time or money, there are other options. Like, say, paying some random stranger a fraction of a Bitcoin to tell you what’s wrong.
Thanks to a new website called CoinMD, you can upload a photo of your latest bowel movement to the internet — together with a detailed description of your ongoing troubles — and obtain advice from an anonymous group of people who swear they’re doctors. If you like what you hear, you pay them in bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency. Or not. You can just take the advice for free. That’s what this guy did after uploading a picture of his stool to the new service.
Recently launched — and touted on Reddit — CoinMD combines three extremely hot internet trends: digital currency, crowdsourcing, and online healthcare. It’s a rather clever service — and it’s absolutely frightening. This is yet another reason to remember that, while the internet promises so much, it can also go horribly wrong.
“Personally, I think the idea is a genius one,” says Dr. Iltifat Husain, the founder and editor-in-chief of iMedicalApps, when asked about CoinMD, pointing out that such a service could tap into the expertise of countless residents in training — students hungry for some extra money. Husain, who is not involved with CoinMD, believes it could actually be useful for people with common medical conditions. But this comes with a caveat. “I would never recommend this site to a patient,” he says, “because it’s not done right.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/coinmd-bitcoins/
Thanks to a new website called CoinMD, you can upload a photo of your latest bowel movement to the internet — together with a detailed description of your ongoing troubles — and obtain advice from an anonymous group of people who swear they’re doctors. If you like what you hear, you pay them in bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency. Or not. You can just take the advice for free. That’s what this guy did after uploading a picture of his stool to the new service.
Recently launched — and touted on Reddit — CoinMD combines three extremely hot internet trends: digital currency, crowdsourcing, and online healthcare. It’s a rather clever service — and it’s absolutely frightening. This is yet another reason to remember that, while the internet promises so much, it can also go horribly wrong.
“Personally, I think the idea is a genius one,” says Dr. Iltifat Husain, the founder and editor-in-chief of iMedicalApps, when asked about CoinMD, pointing out that such a service could tap into the expertise of countless residents in training — students hungry for some extra money. Husain, who is not involved with CoinMD, believes it could actually be useful for people with common medical conditions. But this comes with a caveat. “I would never recommend this site to a patient,” he says, “because it’s not done right.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/coinmd-bitcoins/
Top 8 Foods That Increase Your Metabolism
Metabolism is a series of biochemical reactions that influences the storage and conversion of fuel molecules into energy. It is a set of chemical reactions that maintain the living condition of organism and cells. Metabolism can be subdivided into 2 categories:
Anabolism-this is the synthesis of compounds needed by cells
Catabolism-this is the process where molecules are broken down into energy.
Metabolism is directly related to nutrition and the presence of vital nutrients in the body. Biogenetics is a phrase describing the metabolic and biochemical pathways through which cells eventually obtain energy
Formation of energy is one vital component of metabolism. There are several factors influence metabolism including:
http://www.healthierfoods.com/top-8-foods-that-increase-your-metabolism/?utm_source=outbrain
Anabolism-this is the synthesis of compounds needed by cells
Catabolism-this is the process where molecules are broken down into energy.
Metabolism is directly related to nutrition and the presence of vital nutrients in the body. Biogenetics is a phrase describing the metabolic and biochemical pathways through which cells eventually obtain energy
Formation of energy is one vital component of metabolism. There are several factors influence metabolism including:
http://www.healthierfoods.com/top-8-foods-that-increase-your-metabolism/?utm_source=outbrain
Stop Juicing
Remember when juice was just juice? It has become so much more. A verb, for one thing, and, as the Wall Street Journal reports (what you already know), a status symbol. Thanks to cleansing celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Owen Wilson, and Blake Lively, cold-pressed blends of kale, celery, lemon, chard, and ginger are the new ambrosia of the stars. Bill Clinton juices. Hip-hop ambassador Russell Simmons extolled green juice in the New York Times. Entire workplaces juice together. Bridal parties juice. Juice (the unpasteurized designer stuff, not your standard OJ) has become a $5 billion industry, projected to grow by 4 to 8 percent a year.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/11/juice_cleanses_not_healthy_not_virtuous_just_expensive.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/11/juice_cleanses_not_healthy_not_virtuous_just_expensive.html
The Matchbook Collector
Matchbooks are a bit like cereal boxes; you just can’t help but read all the little details in that moment of solitude while you’re waiting for someone or something. But of course, matchbooks aren’t what they used to be (then again, neither are moments of solitude).
The whole world doesn’t smoke cigarettes anymore thanks to anti-smoking health campaigns, and the introduction of disposable lighters saw the production of matchbooks, along with those entertaining little adverts, decline after the 1960s. Today I found an incredible collection on the ever-generous black hole of information that is the internet. Thousands of matchboxes from a range of decades and photographed from all sides, and have been archived by Flickr member and collector FlamingTurkeyWings. I rummaged through the entire online archive and picked out the vintage designs and advertising copy that spoke to me most. I also took the opportunity to see which businesses and brands featured on the matchbooks were still operating today and which had been long forgotten.
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/11/19/the-matchbook-collector/
The whole world doesn’t smoke cigarettes anymore thanks to anti-smoking health campaigns, and the introduction of disposable lighters saw the production of matchbooks, along with those entertaining little adverts, decline after the 1960s. Today I found an incredible collection on the ever-generous black hole of information that is the internet. Thousands of matchboxes from a range of decades and photographed from all sides, and have been archived by Flickr member and collector FlamingTurkeyWings. I rummaged through the entire online archive and picked out the vintage designs and advertising copy that spoke to me most. I also took the opportunity to see which businesses and brands featured on the matchbooks were still operating today and which had been long forgotten.
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/11/19/the-matchbook-collector/
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