Idea: What if the federal government gave someone like Neil DeGrasse Tyson a “Science Laureate” role, like we do for poets? Sound like a good idea? Fortunately, members of Congress are already working on it.
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Day 09 - A song that makes you want to dance
I’m the Man Who Loves You by Wilco
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Angelina Jolie on her preventative double mastectomy:
Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.
I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be will able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.
(Ah, wrong account. Apologies. But I’m gonna leave this one here—it’s remarkable in many ways.)
Photo Series of a Young Girl Dressed Up as Great Women Throughout History
Photographer Jaime Moore‘s daughter Emma recently turned 5 years old. Naturally, being a photographer, Moore wanted to commemorate the event for her daughter by putting together a cute photo shoot for her, so she turned to the Internet for inspiration.
Much to her chagrin, however, something like 95 percent of the ideas she ran into were actually the same idea: how to dress up your 5-year-old as a Disney Princess. Moore wasn’t keen on that, so she went another way. Instead of dressing her daughter up as a made up ideal, an “unrealistic fantasy” as she put it, she chose to dress and pose her daughter as some of the greatest women throughout history.
The point was to convey to little Emma that she could be anything she wants to be. As Moore explains it on her blog:
My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters.
Each photo is also captioned with an inspirational quote by the amazing woman it portrays. To see all of them in higher resolution and read more about Moore’s inspiration for the project, head over to her website by clicking here.
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#17. Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (1967)
Oh yes.
Restaurateur George Yu Talks Cantonese Food and Sleep Deprivation
As for the food, Yu recommends the following: walnut shrimp, kung pao chicken, gui fei ji (marinated chicken named after a imperial Chinese concubine), and the filet mignon cubes. He’s particularly proud of the restaurant’s Hong Kong egg waffle, an elusive snack found in only a few places in Los Angeles made with flour, eggs, evaporated milk, sugar, starch and baking powder. It’s cooked in a special waffle iron and comes out looking like bubble wrap, the sides slightly crisp. “Other venues put too much egg in it,” he says. The recipe, developed by Yu himself, seems to be working. The egg waffle is one of the restaurant’s most popular menu items.
Read more about the open-till-4am restaurant here.
I wanna do this when I get back. Who’s with me.
Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female. In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty impressive statistic. In a part of the world where little girls aren’t even allowed to ride a bicycle, that’s […]
so awesome!
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