Boompi works like most other dating apps—see people on the app based on your geographical location, swipe in a certain direction to indicate whether you want to talk to them, and match with people who also wish to talk to you.
Knowing about government surveillance prompts people to self-censor what they say online, and avoid expressing controversial opinions, a new study suggests. The research, designed to look at the relationship between free speech and government surveillance, uses the “spiral of silence” communication theory, which states that people continuously try to detect the opinions of the majority, and may keep quiet about their own views for fear of being excluded.
A recent political ad by an anti-Trump super PAC featured women simply repeating various insults Trump has made to or about women in the past. The New York Times fact-checked it—and confirmed, yes, Trump had said all those things.
A comprehensive new study from the Pew Research Center finds that, in most of the world and in almost all religions, women are more religious than men. But for Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women, it’s not so simple.
If we’re ever going to reach gender equality, it may have to be white men who lead the charge. New research shows that managers are actively penalized for promoting diversity in the workforce, regardless of gender or race—unless they are white men.
In the end, it didn’t even matter: New Zealand’s prime minister led a long and expensive campaign to bring the country’s flag into the modern age, only to find that a majority of the nation’s people like the old flag just fine.
There’s a pretty damning quote from a former Nixon policy advisor in an essay arguing for drug legalization recently published in Harper’s.
The governor of a Mexican state plagued by drug violence has suggested a new approach to the problem: legalizing medicinal opium.
The Netherlands will close five of its prisons over the next few years because the cost of maintaining them is too high. The reason why the prisons aren’t cost-efficient, however, is something of a national blessing: thanks to the country’s steadily declining crime rate, thousands of prison cells are going unused.
John Oliver, patron saint of expertly-timed jokes, has taken aim at Donald Trump once again. Last week, the HBO talk show host visited Stephen Colbert’s show and argued that voters should really start referring to the Republican presidential candidate by his German ancestors’ surname: Drumpf.
The Simpsons has been making audiences laugh since 1989, but a forward-looking episode from 2000 might make some fans cringe. An episode of the beloved American sitcom that aired almost exactly 16 years ago—on March 19, 2000—features Donald Trump as president of the United States, presiding over a broken economy.
When the United States announced it would resume full diplomatic relations with Cuba, Airbnb didn’t waste any time. The room-sharing service announced 1,000 listings in Havana and other Cuban cities in April 2015; the company now says it has 4,000 listings for guests to choose from.
The last surviving piece of a script by William Shakespeare was written hundreds of years ago, but its substance—the humane treatment of migrants—is strikingly relevant in Europe today.
Europe is facing a demographic crisis. Countries like Germany, Spain, and Austria have been seeing declining birth rates for decades, leaving governments puzzled for long-term solutions. Some have opted for child subsidies, but a new study shows that lump sums of money aren’t the magic wand that European governments are looking for. If leaders really want their citizens to have more babies, they need to support mothers.
If you want to enjoy the highest quality of life possible, you may want to consider a move to Scandinavia. A new report on worldwide happiness names Denmark as the happiest country on Earth, beating the other European nation that previously held that title: Switzerland.
Comedy Central’s cult comedy Broad City has scored its most famous guest star yet: presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“Bimbo. Dog. Fat Pig.” That’s how this new anti-Donald Trump ad starts: with a series of insults from the GOP frontrunner about women, read by other women.
For anyone who’s ever wondered what it is like to be dyslexic, this website could help. Developer Victor Widell has created a page that’s just a little bit harder to read than most.
After Chris Rock reminded everyone of just how white Hollywood is, filmmakers may feel the pressure to hire more women and minorities. But better hiring practices don’t mean women and minorities will be better represented onscreen. In director Paul Feig’s remake of Ghostbusters, Leslie Jones plays a black female Ghostbuster—but in the trailer, her character is also the only one who isn’t a scientist.
The death of justice Antonin Scalia has left the US Supreme Court in something of an existential crisis. The country waits to see if president Barack Obama will nominate a ninth Supreme Court justice before the end of his second term—and whether the GOP-controlled Senate will confirm his nomination. Regardless of when it happens, filling Scalia’s vacancy could decidedly make the Court more conservative or liberal.
When the Mexican government recaptured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán and placed him (yet again) in a maximum security prison, there were a number of reasons why officials may have said they couldn’t process his extradition any faster. For one, Guzmán himself tried to block the extradition.
Millions of female workers deal with period pain during their monthly cycle, and most employers just ignore it. But one company in the UK has finally recognized that working while doubled over in pain isn’t the most efficient use of staff time, and is allowing women to build their cycles into their work schedules.
If you were furious after watching The Big Short, you had good reason. A new study looking at a decade’s worth of data on financial advisers in the United States found evidence that financial firms really do take advantage of people.
The first flip phone went on sale. An IBM computer won its first game of chess against a human. And the first web browser, Netscape, was just two years old and already under siege by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 1.0. Elsewhere in 1996, Bob Dole and Jack Kemp ran on the Republican national ticket for US president.
