Scientific Tips for Online Dating

The rules to crafting an attractive online dating profile might seem obvious—use your best photos and write a bio that only includes the most interesting aspects of your life. But according to science, there are several subliminal factors that can maximize your online success. Choosing a username that begins with a letter from the first half of the alphabet (A-M) seems to work while sticking …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Miss Piggy the feminist, Pluto's wobbly moons, how to achieve superhuman hearing and more in this week's look at the web

1. Miss Piggy Receives Feminist Award The Muppets’ Miss Piggy was recently awarded the Sackler Center First Award by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art for her contributions toward modern feminism and for serving as a consistent inspiration to younger generations. Past recipients include former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writer Toni Morrison and director Julie Taymor. In her classic, confident style, …

Learn Perfect Pitch

Perfect pitch was once a skill believed to be attainable only by musical prodigies like Mozart or Mariah Carey but, according to new research, it’s possible for any human adult to acquire it. Researchers at the University of Chicago recently worked with 17 college students to train their brains into recognizing distinct music notes by listening to and then recreating them. The subjects were invited …