Some people have jobs that are often very disconnected from everyday life. But Daniel Jones’ job is a form of daily life incarnate.  As the long time editor of the Modern Love column in The Sunday New York Times Magazine, since 2004 Jones is perhaps the reigning expert on love, relationships and why we all “need the eggs.”

If hundreds of years from now, an alien civilizations wanted to find out about the mating habits of humans, they could do no better than to look at Jones new book Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (with the Help of 50,000 Strangers). My conversation with Daniel Jones: