An Oscars-Inspired Dinner
I didn’t watch the Oscars this past Sunday, but I couldn’t avoid catching some of the buzz via Facebook and my other social media channels. By far my favorite thing to show up in my feed on Oscars night were–unsurprisingly–food related! My friend Laura Hepburn Engert planned a nine-course meal to help her celebrate the awards show, with one course inspired by each Best Pict... »
Mad Quickies 3.5
Portrait of a Community Inside Barneys’ groundbreaking campaign featuring 17 trans* models Stuff Being Thrown at My Head via Anne Astronaut Mae Jemison talks about women in STEM. I love her. LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS COPEPOD. It’s little and it flashes blue with the right light. The Last of Us True tales of the last members of doomed species. Color photos of the inside of the Hindenburg Re... »
Operation Flawless: A Confessional Recap
I want to thank every single person who contributed even a single selfie. You are all amazing. You are all beautiful. And it is your faces that helped me keep going. I love and respect all of you. I know it was hard. I bow down to you. Monday was the end of Operation Flawless, a social media campaign encouraging women to reject conventional beauty standards and post “unattractive” selfies. I spent... »
Band Riders and the Legend of the Brown M&Ms
New York-based photographer Henry Hargreaves and food artist Caitlin Levin have done something amazing. No, I don’t mean their gingerbread recreations of famous art galleries and museums or photographs of deep-fried tech gadgets, though both are equally cool. I mean Band Riders, a photography project depicting the catering requests of various musicians’ riders in the style of a Flemish... »
Happy Birthday to Us and Free Stuff to You
I wrote and published a fantasy novel, partly due to the support offered by the members and readers of this blog. Last year, I though I would show my thanks by giving away my novel for free during our anniversary week. While it may be disappointing to get the same present twice, stop whining. It’s our birthday, not yours. This is your loot bag. But to make this celebration a little more fun,... »
Stem Cells, Stressed Cells, Healing, and the Lure of Rejuvenation
A recent study in Nature, entitled “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency“, suggests that subjecting cells to dangerous but non-lethal conditions (such as a bath in acid, or a mechanical squeeze) can turn them into stem cells. Unsurprisingly, this publication set off a bit of a media blitz, and then it turned out that there were numerous problems with th... »
