This week on Supercharged we're discussing the cost of online dating and social media. It may serve to connect us better in some ways, but hurts in others. We're exploring what works and doesn't and how we can improve.

Links for this episode:

• These 3 Simple Questions Can Predict if an OkCupid Date Will SucceedIf you and your date share a penchant for horror movies, you could be in for a scream — of a committed relationship, that is.
• How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True LoveChris McKinlay was folded into a cramped fifth-floor cubicle in UCLA’s math sciences building, lit by a single bulb and the glow from his monitor. It was 3 in the morn­ing, the optimal time to squeeze cycles out of the supercomputer in Colorado that he was using for his PhD dissertation. (The subject: large-scale data processing and parallel numerical methods.) While the computer chugged, he clicked open a second window to check his OkCupid inbox.