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Whenever I see a Kardashian-related makeup product (which is, like, every five seconds, amiright?), I remember that krazy dream I had a few months ago where Kim and I got into a kat fight about jewelry. HA HA HA! Yes, it was nuts. I think of that dream every time I wear the #BECCABFFs collection. The #BECCABFFs collection is new, LE and available now with two powder palettes, a loose highlighter and four lipsticks. It’s a collab between Khloe Kardashian and her bestie Malika Haqq, and even though I have feeeeeeeelings about the Kardashians…I guess if there were any of...

The National Poo Museum Meerkat poo Fossil poo Pigeon poo This is deliriously fascinating.The National Poo Museum  at the Isle of Wight Zoo Like nearly every other creature on earth, we poo. With the right equipment you can find poo on almost any surface - it’s everywhere and it’s inside us too. Poo provokes strong reactions. Small children naturally delight in it but soon learn to avoid this yucky, disease-carrying stuff. Later, we learn that even talking about poo is bad. But for most of us, under the layers of disgust and taboo, the fascination remains. Poo is important. We...

The 2015 Ig Nobel awards have been as comical as usual.Image re-composed in Gimp from the official poster (PDF).All have been very well-deserved recipients, but my favorites are:MATHEMATICS PRIZE — Elisabeth Oberzaucher [AUSTRIA, GERMANY, UK] and Karl Grammer [AUSTRIA, GERMANY], for trying to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children.REFERENCE: “The Case of Moulay Ismael-Fact or Fancy?” Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer, PLOS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, 2014, e85292.–BIOLOGY PRIZE — Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals,...

So…what is the Monday Poll? Good question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past gazillion years (more than 10!). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a great start. 👍 1. What was your favorite year in school, and what was special about it? I mean, it’s gonna sound so cliché, but senior year in high school really was great. OK, I didn’t drive, but all of my...

I don’t love cowlicks, but cowlicks love me. [Insert crying-face emojis right here 😭😭😭.] My cowlick situation was almost mildly tolerable before I started growing out my grays, but now it’s next level orange alert!!! It’s the texture of the gray hairs, man. They’re wirier than my non-gray hairs, and the short, stubby pieces stick out, especially the hairs right smack dab in the middle of my hairline and in the center of my part. If I leave them be, I look like I’m being mildly electrocuted… Hence Oribe Free Styler Working Hairspray. Expensive as it is [$42 for a...