Why do cable companies bundle their channels?:
.cable TV has always relied on “bundling”—you have to buy a package of channels rather than picking only those you want—in recent years the practice has come under fire, in no small part because the price of those bundles keeps rising. The bundles do, of course, include many more channels than they did a decade ago. But, as Kevin Martin, the former head of the F.C.C., was fond of pointing out, if you’re watching only sixteen channels why should you…
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What Makes E-Commerce Websites Sticky?:
is study examined the relationship between interactive attributes and the consumer browsing behavior at e-commerce websites based on the two contending theoretical frameworks: uses and gratification theory and social cognitive theory. While the former assumes that consumers are rational and try to minimize their search and transaction costs through online shopping, the latter relaxes the assumption of rational consumers arguing that consumers can be impulsive from deficient self-regulation. From the empirical study of the top 65 e-commerce websites, this study…
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Can you tell if someone is a Republican or Democrat just by looking at their face?
re we found that individuals' political affiliations could be accurately discerned from their faces. In Study 1, perceivers were able to accurately distinguish whether U.S. Senate candidates were either Democrats or Republicans based on photos of their faces. Study 2 showed that these effects extended to Democrat and Republican college students, based on their senior yearbook photos. Study 3 then showed that these judgments were related to differences in perceived traits among the Democrat and Republican faces. Republicans were perceived…
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Things you didn’t know about sports:
pro athletes break the law more than the average person? How often do pro athletes go bankrupt? Why do pitchers hit batters in baseball? How long does it take athletes to make $100K? Does betting on sports ruin the fun? Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an NHL team? The science of "fair weather" sports fans Should LeBron James accept a salary of $1 a year? Could proper use of statistics improve decison making in football? What's the…
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Are humans just “domesticated” apes?
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Clay Shirky on the dynamic changes caused by the printing press and the internet:
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How you know who your real friends are:
e night in the mid-1990s when I was working as a journalist in Beijing, I went out to dinner with some Chinese friends. I had just finished reading a book called "The File" by the British historian Timothy Garton Ash. It's about what happened in East Berlin after the Berlin Wall came down and everybody could see the files the Stasi had been keeping all those years. People discovered who had been ratting on whom—in some cases neighbors and co-workers,…
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Even blind men prefer a low waist-to-hip ratio in women:
a sciencedirect.com: Previous studies suggest that men in Western societies are attracted to low female waist-to-hip ratios (WHR). Several explanations of this preference rely on the importance of visual input for the development of the preference, including explanations stressing the role of visual media. We report evidence showing that congenitally blind men, without previous visual experience, exhibit a preference for low female WHRs when assessing female body shapes through touch, as do their sighted counterparts. This finding shows that a…
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