love in the club

Happy Monday!

Heard there was serious drama at the H20 grand opening Friday night. More on that later. In other nightlife news...I was surprised to see new downtown nightclub The Oasis (formerly Rumors/Savana's) open Saturday night. I'll stop in and take some pics soon.

In the meantime, here's an article about a Northwestern University speed dating experiment designed to explain how and why people fall in love. An excerpt:

With sufficient research, (lead researcher) Finkel believes, scholars might make dating less hellish for millions of people, or develop models to predict relationship success based on speed-dating compatibility.

It will, of course, be decades before their conclusions lead toward a grand theory of dating, much less comprehensive personal or policy recommendations. Yet Finkel still dreams far into the future-20 years, perhaps-to a time when he and (study collaborator) Eastwick and the rest of the field might understand how romantic attraction works even 5 percent better. It may not seem like much, but in a culture where as many as half of marriages end in divorce, even a tiny bit of new knowledge could have profound implications in how we search for love.

"That would be totally valuable," Finkel says. "People would be desperate to know it."

If there was an entirely accurate scientific paper describing how to find your perfect mate, would you read it? Or, would you prefer to leave the key to finding a love a mystery?

(Thanks for the link, Dan.)