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So…what is the Monday Poll? Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. 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 quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start. 1. When was the last time you were stung by a bee? It was in elementary school approximately one billion years ago, give or take. I was in third grade. It happened on the street...

Like everything in Aussie beauty line Frank Body, I too am powered by coffee! ☕ In fact, I’m completely non-functional without it (or at least something containing caffeine). Frank Body has been around since 2013, packing their products with the mighty coffee bean. They’re available all over Australia now, as well as here in the US online. Their products have cheeky names, and they put funny quotes and pics on the packaging (there’s a doodle of a bum on the coffee scrub!). CUTE. They remind me of Bliss, but with more coffee, and their most popular products are their exfoliating...

And now for something completely different (not), if I had a nickel for every time I watched a YouTube makeup video and thought, “Oh, I can handle that. That’s gonna be easy.” And then I tried it and was like, “What the hell just happened?” — I’d be a rich girl. Yeesh, I’m so out of practice with eyeshadow… It is definitely a perishable skill, at least for me. It’s not like riding a bike, where you can take years off, then hop back on and be like, “Lalala! So easy! This is great!” As you know, I’ve been wanting...

Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse(Steven Weinberg interviewed by Quanta Magazine).In his latest book, To Explain The World - The Discovery of Modern Science, the Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg (co-discoverer of Electroweak interaction a substantial part of the Standard Model) explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here.Actually I didn’t read the book yet, though I’ll do sooner than later, but I recommend to read this interview that includes some very interesting insights about modern physics, cosmology, particle physics, string theory… i.e all those aspects that he does not touch on the...

Christmas is 12 weeks away. That’s approximately 87 sleeps! This year, I’ve decided that I’m going to the annoying mom/auntie/sister-from-another-mister you never wanted, because I’m officially going to start bugging you to start your gift shopping MEOW. Don’t wait till the last minute, babe. It’s so much less stressful for you (and me) this way! Anyway, I’ve been doing some initial canvassing for stocking stuffers lately, and here’s a couple of cool things I’ve found… Tattly Temporary Tattoos I happened upon these temporary tattoos (made by real artists!) from Tattly a few weeks ago, and even though I’m not a...