Know thyself! According to the Quantified Self movement, data aggregation is the answer to one of mankind’s oldest and most fundamental problems. Its…

Facebook has taken a lot of heat in the past few days for toying with users’ emotions—albeit for scientific purposes. In January 2012, 700,000 Facebook…

The search for online perfection traps us in a Fear of Missing Out.

Facebook announced this week that it is adopting the hashtag – supposedly to “help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific…

Nate Silver had an interesting piece yesterday which concludes based on statistical evidence (as opposed to wishful thinking) that President Barack Obama and the…