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“At this point, I had ten profiles with similar sounding usernames, all with the same answers to 25 questions, with the same written profile and personal stats (all heights consistent, the same level of education, etc.),” Millward wrote on his blog. This means the only difference between all ten participants was their profile picture.

Millward did find there were huge differences in the attention each profile received. He noticed the two women who were at the top of his attractiveness scale received 581 percent more messages than the other three women combined.

I am by far at my worst in the summer: consistently broken out, sweaty, and frizzy-haired by the time I get anywhere. I’m so disgusting and disheveled by the time I get to social functions that I’m surprised anyone looks at me, let alone talks to me.

If this sounds overly whiny, hyperbolic, petulant, please, try living in New York for a summer. The oven-like heat might make you feel nauseated if you’re not accustomed to it. Because of my overdramatic nature, I’d go so far as to say that summers in New York are nauseous.

“Nauseous” and “nauseated” are two very commonly confused words. People often use “nauseous” when they mean “nauseated.” For example, you WOULDN’T say, “I feel so nauseous right now” when you’re trying to say, “I feel like I’m going to throw up right now.” To express the condition of feeling like you’re going to throw up right now, you’d use the word “nauseated.” So the correct way to use “nauseated” is: “I feel so nauseated right now.”

“Nauseous” means that something is so disgusting or vile that it induces you to want to throw up. It’s often used as an exaggeration, as used in the sentence above: “Summers in New York are nauseous.”

Perhaps you might consider moving to Haiti. Not only would you be able to dodge socialist doctors, but you might be able to avoid medical professionals altogether: The country only has 25 physicians per 100,000 people. While access to clean water may be a bit spotty, this is more than made up for by the short life expectancy and the absence of Barack Obamas. Pack your swimsuit!

But maybe Haiti is still a little too close to our socialist empire for comfort. (Dear God, what if America’s newfound brand of Marxist, fascist dictatorship were to spread?!) Don’t worry, because the majority of the continent of Africa is far away from both Obamacare — and any sort of care whatsoever. In fact, for you diehard libertarians who hate having your government provide things, there aren’t many places better-suited for you than Liberia. Not only will the Liberian government not provide you with health care, but it will also fail to provide for just about every other basic human need. It’s no coincidence that the country’s motto is, “The love of liberty brought us here,” because nothing represents the anti-Obamacare brand of liberty than a very high risk of catching a serious infectious disease and a low likelihood of finding the resources to treat it. As a bonus for you fans of the Second Amendment who feel that it’s necessary to have a gun on you at all times, you’re going to love this beautiful land where that’s probably a pretty good idea.

Today, with Obama in the midst of a tough reelection campaign, he can no longer count on the same level of support from young voters like Meghan and Matt Gilliland. Both are disappointed and bitter about his presidency, so much so that they are backing the fringe Republican candidate, Ron Paul. Their disillusionment represents a marginal yet potentially decisive shift among younger voters, one that could make Obama a one-term president: A slice of the youth electorate has soured either on the president or on politics in general to an extent that could see lower participation at the polls in November – an outcome that could put the White House in play.

The U.S. military has its sights set on Reddit.

The Pentagon plans to create a version of the massively popular social news site, hoping that the crowdsourced discussion platform will surface innovative ideas and solutions to problems big and small.

The Reddit clone is called Eureka and will be part of a bundle of social Web services the military has created—dubbed milSuite—that will mirror popular sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube.

Meet “The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of His Verdict,” an in-progress educational video game inspired by Rushdie’s so-called sin. The concept came out of a student contest held three year ago by the government-funded Iranian Islamic Association of Students, reports The Guardian. Despite difficulties and delays, the game’s development is described in the Guardian article as “under way.”

WikiLeaks is branching out into the entertainment industry, announcing a CD, called “Beat the Blockade,” intended to raise money to keep the online transparency advocates afloat.

These kids live in shelters and on the streets, and increasingly in hotels and on the couches of friends and relatives. On one hotel-lined stretch of highway — a road leading to Disney World — Nilan heard of schools where there are as many as 25 homeless students in classes of 28.

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Those cheeks, smooth as a hairless Chihuahua, will receive considerable attention, as will the rippling muscles, thrusting pelvises and the dancing, by turns snaky and acrobatic, that are on generous display in “Magic Mike.”

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Reddit user Talpostal recently posted a March 2010 entry from Dark Horse Brewery’s website, which revealed the operation’s opportunity to have its beer featured in a Nickelback music video. Head brewer Aaron Morse was less than enthusiastic about the prospect.

“I absolutely hate that band,” Morse said today. “It’s s—- rock and roll that doesn’t deserve to be on the radio.”

Reboots of film franchises have been typically launched many more years later than that. But today, “five years is a lifetime in the movie business,” says Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal. “I wasn’t troubled by it.”

Defying the expectations, Justice John Roberts — said to be a relentless conservative activist — joined the court’s “liberal wing” in saving the law by grounding the “individual mandate” not in the power of Congress to regulate commerce, but in its taxing power. As I suggested yesterday, the court essentially said that Congress could not require people to buy something in the private economy, but they could fine them if they didn’t. The court found that power to fine, in the taxing power of Article I. Now the president will have to figure out a way to make the fines in the law — which are weak and toothless — real.

The idea to require all Americans to buy private health insurance was hatched in a conservative think tank, first deployed by a Republican governor (Mitt Romney) and at first opposed in the Democratic 2008 presidential primaries by candidate Barack Obama. But as soon as he had he vanquished Hillary Clinton - a proponent of the mandate — he privately decided to support it. “I kind of think Hillary was right,” he told an aide in the summer of 2008, according to Princeton professor Paul Starr. There were those — including Starr — who had publicly and privately warned that the mandate was a risk, but once in the White House Obama and his aides (many, ironically, Clinton veterans) ignored the warnings.

The obvious big political winner, at least initially, is President Obama. Had the court thrown out the core mechanics of the law, his signature accomplishment would have been in shambles. He can take to the campaign trail with the backing of none other than George W. Bush appointee Roberts. His polls were on the upswing and may get a boost. There are troubles down the road. He has to make the fines real. Most people don’t like the mandate, no matter what it is grounded on. Republicans and Romney, their presumptive nominee, will make overturning the law their crusade for the campaign, and they will have the polls on their side.

Beyond the political back-and-forth, the 5-4 ruling is an example of the durability of our system, and of Roberts’ desires to protect the reputation of the institution as the one place in the country that is above politics. The court is the most essential part of our system of government by the rule of law. It takes the place in our system of faith or royalty as the ultimate arbiter of Truth in the public realm. Roberts understood that, and protected it.

Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. tumbled in premarket trading Thursday as a published report said that the bank’s losses on a bad trade may reach as much as $9 billion – far higher than the estimated $2 billion loss disclosed last month.

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In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its…

Gilles Simon, a Frenchman seeded 13th at Wimbledon, told reporters in French that he thinks “men’s tennis is ahead of women’s tennis” and “men spend twice as long on court as women do at Grand Slams.”

He also said men “provide a more attractive show” in their matches.

All four Grand Slam tournaments pay equal prize money to men and women, something Simon said he doesn’t think “works in sports.”