The open-to-the-public swim starts at 1 pm on 1 January from the boardwalk at Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn.

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Cinnamon Stillwell is the West Coast Representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.

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"It's an easy way to get your hands on an opiate-based drug, a painkiller, for recreational use, " Stillwell says.

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"It gives us a poignant insight into the effects that parental breakup has on children even after they grow up, " says Stillwell.

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"Curly fries correlated with high intelligence and people who liked the Dark Knight tended to have fewer Facebook friends, " said research author David Stillwell.

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"Facebook likes have a meaning that we can use to understand the psychology behind what people do, " says David Stillwell, a co-author of the study.

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James Stillwell, the executive director of Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Pasadena, California, says he believes it's much more prevalent than authorities realize.

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Stillwell says companies are already using these kinds of machine-learning models to make connections, though the companies may not know that they're measuring IQ or extroversion.

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There are simple things users can do, said Mr Stillwell.

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"My biggest concern is that people do not realize what is possible, so they think that frivolous behaviors such as liking something cannot possibly say anything important about them, " says Stillwell.

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