I would 100% wear this outfit out for drinks tonight, including bigass hair and hairbow.

The 2005 BBC series is really worth a watch if you like that sort of thing (so much better than digging through Dickens' prose yourself, seriously). Charles Dance (Tulkinghorn) and Gillian Anderson (Lady Dedlock) are just delicious.

This was years ago, but I pumped in a storage room in my old office— I basically had a sort of comfy chair, a stack of paperbacks and an outlet to plug my pump into. It certainly wasn't ideal, but the fact that they made the effort to accommodate me (I had the key to the room so that I was assured of privacy, and my…

Sharksashiminado just doesn't quite have the same ring to it, though.

Oh dear. A book on child development might be good reading for you, because this comment demonstrates that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Wasn't Kid Rock in there at some point as well? Maybe he's up next in the rotation.

I watched it when it aired on BBC last year (? I think). That was the first time I'd seen Jamie Dornan in anything, but I agree, super creepy. I loved it, though, looking forward to series 2.

We moved this year, and my kids' new school has a penchant for having 9am parent events— and not only that, but they rarely give more than a few days' notice for these things. SO aggravating, and the PTA culture is such that if you don't 'show' that you are involved by coming to these things, you basically get…

It icks you out because you're not used to it, and we're socialized to think of breasts as inherently sexual. If you grew up somewhere where nursing into toddlerhood was more common, I'm sure you wouldn't have the same reaction. Examining your own biases (while tactfully keeping your mouth shut, as you're doing) is…

Seconded.

Total aside, and I am deeply ashamed, but re: Jeremy Renner— I actually liked that Hansel and Gretl movie. Kitschy fun.

I'm surprised this was up to PNAS standards, frankly— the fact that the review board isn't named shouldn't (theoretically, anyway) pass muster with either the journal's standards for submission or under peer review. I can't imagine any justifiable reason why the review board should remain anonymous, either.

I like how she throws jazz hands midway through as a possible solution to the problem. I'm going to use that in the future.

GOOD LORD, EVERYTHING IS REVEALED. I feel the universe opening before me.

As far as I know (and there is much more research on this than just the study reported above) it's late fertility that is an indicator of longevity, not specifically when you have your children.

Ditto. My mom was 43 when I was born and died when she was 62.

So very much this. I work with preteens (and also breed them in my spare time) and 'kids these days' by and large do not see the sexy/glamour/rebellious side smoking that we olds grew up with. Any threat to that sea change is a serious one.

How cute is this look? LOVE.

Science has no place in my cakery, cake science is FAKE science, amirite?!?!

Seriously, I have a new biggest fear and it is that this phrase will never leave my brain. Mouth peelings.