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Here are today’s:

* Obama’s budget director had a pretty amusing motivational strategy for when he ran marathons — if he failed to meet his goals, he had it set up so that he made an automatic donation to a charity he hated — no word on what that charity was

* Children screw up your marriage — according to an eight-year study of 218 couples, 90% of the couples experienced a decrease in marital satisfaction once the first child was born — couples who do not have children also show diminished marital quality over time (but children accelerate it)

* Is gay marriage inevitable? —God-like stats genius builds a model that says most states will have gay marriage by 2016 — partly this will be because of attrition (gay-marriage opponents dying off) and partly this will be because of changing social norms

* Scientists search for love at first sight — in fruit flies

* A company promises to beam your ad telepathically to anyone anywhere anytime — Mind Hacks isn’t sure whether it’s a joke — it’ll run you $2,000 for a one-page ad to the world — bonus: ads with awesome images of brains here

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