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Eye cream. Otherwise known as “hope in a jar.” 🙂 It’s been on my mind lately because every time I look in the mirror I wonder if I’ve always looked this tired? Because, duuuude! — I can’t remember the last time I saw my reflection and thought, “Wow, I look like I slept well.” Hence the current eye cream obsession. Looking for a new eye cream I’d been using Clarins Super Restorative Total Eye Concentrate since last fall, but I recently ran out. It was doing a pretty good job…but it wasn’t rocking my world. And that’s what I want!...

1. The Clinique “My Happy” perfumes When I graduated from college and got my first “real job,” one of the very first things I treated myself to was a bottle of citrus-y Clinique Happy, a scent I adore to this day. All I know is that every time I wear it, good things seem to happen (it’s also what I was wearing when I met El Hub!), which is partly why I’m so enamored with these six new Happy versions. Of course you can wear them separately, or combine two or more of them together to create a layered scent,...

New model predicts that we’re probably the only advanced civilization in the observable universe. Via Universe Today.Well, playing with the Drake equation and the Fermi paradox is always fun and educative, as long as you assume that you are on a purely speculative ground. We actually don’t know, and the “probably” adverb in the title is central.From the original paper’s abstract (Dissolving the Fermi Paradox - PDF):[…] The expectation that the universe should be teeming with intelligent life is linked to models like the Drake equation, which suggest that even if the probability of intelligent life developing at a given site...

50 years since iconic ‘A Model of Leptons’ publishedA model of leptons - PDFS Weinberg - Physical review letters, 1967 - APSJust two pages long, Weinberg’s elegant and simply written theory was revolutionary at the time, yet was virtually ignored for many years. But now, it is cited at least three times a week. Image caption: “This event shows the real tracks produced in the 1200 litre Gargamelle bubble chamber that provided the first confirmation of a neutral current interaction.“ One day, as the 34-year-old Weinberg was driving his red Camero to work, he had a flash of insight –...

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. Orange blush: yea or nay? Yea! (Or YAY!). Particularly if there’s a a wee bit of tasteful warm golden shimmer up in the mix. I’m into it. 2. Orange nail polish: yea or nay? Nay…unless we’re talking...