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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’s the scoop on your makeup today? It’s been hot, so I’m hell bent on getting away with wearing as little makeup as possible (as little as I can handle right now). I did a quick 10-min...

Nerd alert! (Of course I mean that in the best possible way because makeup nerds ROCK.) I nerded out big time to this ’90s makeup how-to video by Sam of Pixiwoo, and after watching it, all I wanted to do was grab my brushes (they’re clean, hallelujah!), sit down with a pile o’ makeup and a mirror, blast some Prince, and just play for hours. Sam shows step-by-step how to do a classic, full-on ’90s matte eye similar to what Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston (two of my favorite ’90s divas) wore back in the day. Then she pairs it...

Artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disc in which planets are forming. Image taken by ALMA showing the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star HL Tauri. Composite image of the young star HL Tauri and its surroundings using data from ALMA (enlarged in box at upper right) and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (rest of the picture). Image comparing the size of the Solar System with HL Tauri and its surrounding protoplanetary disc. Revolutionary ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis, Top to down and left to right: Artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary...

Visions of Future PhysicsNima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.By Quanta MagazineImage caption: Nima Arkani-Hamed with collaborators Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo (seated at left) and David Pinner at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Credit.- Béatrice de Géa for Quanta Magazine–A highly recommended reading. About Nima Arkani-Hamed, one of the current best theoretical physicists, and the inaugural director of the new Center for Future High Energy Physics in Beijing and its planned 100 Tev collider, nicknamed “the Great Collider”.A truly absorbing reading,...

2014 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano (both from Nagoya University) and Shuji Nakamura (University of California, Santa Barbara) for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources Congrats! Press Release (PDF) Information for the Public (PDF: Blue LEDs – Filling the world with new light) Scientific Background (PDF: Efficient Blue Light-Emitting Diodes Leading To Bright And Energy-Saving White Light Sources)