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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines(National Geographic)Researchers digging in the Philippines’s Callao Cave found teeth and bones that they say belong to a distinct species of ancient human, which they have named Homo luzonensis.Nature (news): Previously unknown human species found in Asia raises questions about early hominin dispersals from Africa Nature (paper, paywall): A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines- Inside the firth chamber of Callao Cave in Peñablanca, Cagayan. Credit: Ervin Malicdem [CC BY-SA 4.0] - Wikimedia Commons

I’ve been meaning to do an updated skin care routine breakdown, and today seems like a good day for it. But before I jump in, I feel like I should let you that I’m standing in my bathroom right now looking into my cabinet, which stands just behind and above the toilet, and having PTSD flashbacks of my Velvet Teddy lipstick falling into the toilet. 🙄 I keep hearing that *plunk* over and over again… That said, here we go! Everything I’m doing in my routine now revolves around how sensitive my skin is feeling on any given day, because...

I love that I can walk around nowadays with messy hair that looks like I just woke up, but have it be, like, a legit hairstyle (Dear Beauty Goddesses, please don’t let this trend go away!). Texturizing sprays (or naps on the couch) are the typical way to get this lived-in look, where you’ve got clumps of hair sticking together and tussled waves like you just emerged from a wind tunnel, and there are lots of good ones out there, but now there’s a new way to get the same look by going down a different path, and it’s from...

And maybe two or more languages besides the broken English. I have always blown away by the ease for the languages of certain people or countries (eg. Poles, Romanians, Czechs, etc…), they need to have a set of skills fairly complete: memory, abstraction, good ear, phonetic… not everyone has those skills together or are accustomed to using them at once. Also, if you speak natively one of the top spoken languages today (Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi…), it’s quite possible that simply you do not need to learn another language, so that these skills are not exercised and end atrophied.So I...

Um…how many fall wreathes does one home need? — because even though I just put up this Pier 1 fall leaf wreath (say that five times fast), I kindasorta also want this one I saw at Trader Joe’s… Don’t ask me why I have a soft spot for circular autumnal decor. There’s no rhyme or reason. I’m just into it! I also saw pumpkins at TJ’s when I was there and wanted to get one, but I’m afraid it’ll be rotten by the time Halloween rolls around. But seeing as how so many people start decorating for Christmas right after...