Your hilarious post made me look this up! “From causing the runs to making paint spread smoother, Olestra the “Anal Leakage” Fat Gets Alternative Life As Green Replacement for toxic volatile organic compounds in paint and other products!

Um, did anybody point out that yours was the best example?

ELECTRIC CIRCUS! Just last week Monika Deol was loading her car next to me in the parking lot of our local independent grocer!

It's a trap!

You're restricted to two armadillos but racoons are unlimited?

I read the headline too and thought, "ROBIN GIVENS wrote a book?" This book does however sound like a great summer read though, social history and fabulousness!

Great article - maybe Medzhitov should get a Nobel for the outcomes of this research

Thanks for your voice on this topic! Mining, working with explosives, and even car racing are dangerous professions yet entire industries are supported by those working in environments of risk - who should be protected by regulations to ensure their safety. To those who claim sex work is "inherently dangerous,"' isn't…

How about just extraterrestrial? Like 60sR says, life uniquely mutated or adapted to its environment may be in a form that would never exist here. If one third of earth's biomass could be archaea living under oceans from an a methane era to whom oxygen is poison - who knows what's living elsewhere in our solar system!

The BEST part, "In order to successfully practice Mr. Lister's Antiseptic Method," one doctor scoffed in 1878, "it is necessary that we should believe, or act as if we believed, the atmosphere to be loaded with germs!"

1841 edition of, "Tales of Herodotus," from a friend who lived to be 101!

Remember Doodle Art from the 1970's? Possibly dating myself, it came rolled in a tube to be coloured at your discretion., http://doodleartworld.com

Perimeter is so COOL! The cubes are individual offices!

Um, so this is a star well documented over 100 years whose observations led to important insights into astronomy. Also, COOL space art!

Isn't it called DARK only for the reason that it doesn't emit light at any wavelength we can detect which is the only way we have to SEE the universe. There is enough mass to influence gravity so we know it's there - but most likely an amalgamation of weakly interacting particles that don't even have much effect on…

Thanks for this recommendation! Always love everything that is James Burke and this brought it all back. It's always fun to visit the cloud chamber at my local cyclotron, but who knew there was actually once a Cloud Atlas?

The BEST thing about this series is it provides insight to local ideals of beauty even if they don't necessarily incorporate the cultural or ethnic background of the subjects. A make-up artist friend who visited London at New Years and remarked that her host, (who coincidently works for Tom Ford,) displayed an…

A favourite quote from Fran Lebowitz, "Your relatives, obviously, you have no choice about. And I think you have as little choice about your romantic alliances. There's some kind of compulsion toward a lover, because sex is involved. Sometimes when you break up with somebody they say to you, 'Let's still be friends.'…

A young woman at the convenience store next to my office chose to wear a hijab during Ramadan, out of respect for her Iraqi husband and the convenience of visiting with friends and family after work. With only her European blond spiky hair covered, she changed nothing about the rest of her appearance or make-up, but…

It could be a little of both, natural with added "magic hair." Especially for events a little weave can make all the difference! Obviously her lid is known for being remarkably consistent but sometimes it does seem to look more wiggy.