The Worst Hair Dryer in the World
...take at least six more weeks, because I'm lazy about the stupidest things—it got me thinking about how people might've tried to commodify hair before blow-dryers were around. (The first...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Dunham tried on the tap pants trend, the world stopped, and her response to her critics is nothing short of fantastic. "I don’t think a girl with tiny thighs would...
Footnote Fairy Tale
...by our determination and our strength. They tried to crush us over and over again, but we wouldn’t be crushed.” He runs through the crimes of the Stalinist era, which...
This Week in Art Crime
...Mr Shannon told the police after his arrest he committed the thoughtless act of vandalism in an attempt to ‘get back at the state’ however while in court he tried...
Dances With Anarchists
...Goldman’s father beat her with a whip. She battled with authority at the school, too, denied a character reference needed to continue her education. One teacher’s report called the twelve-year-old...
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
...much about the products on an individual, something about seeing all of them grouped together on the page vaguely unsettled me. I tried articulating this to a friend, who then...
A Connecting Thing
...religions, books and song. What if Parisians would see? What if U.S. Americans saw after Nine Eleven? Shunned their cowboy and sinister senators? Read and investigated, instead? Tried the guilty...
Beauty Blogosphere Summer Solstice
...tried yet—nay, products in general!—but when the goodie in question is a nail polish named after one of her favorite beauty bloggers, The Reluctant Femme, it's totally principled, right? Or...
Forced into the Fringe: Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis
...By Kathleen Sheppard Margaret Murray was an Egyptologist at University College, London from 1894 to 1935. She spent much of her career managing administrative and teaching duties in the...
Les Trahisons des Clercs
...procedures of prediction another. The Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, forwarded the idea that criminals may be distinguished by certain shared physiognomic traits. Francis Galton tried to define these traits by...
Kenya's Security Act: Citizen Reporting
...finding out the truth in Kenya and trying to hold the state accountable. Key Changes in the Security Bill Kenya’s mainstream media has tried to argue that the Security Act...
May Day 2012
...officials have tried to control the student movement. Mainstream Québec media – and by extension the majority of Canadian media that pick up from these sources – have insisted on...
Lucky Number Seven
...off as thoughtful and kind — it’s clear that he wants to use his good fortune to help others — and lives out his commitment to social justice by teaching...
The Real Image
...that I, too, was gaining access to more of my brain than ordinary mortals could, and that if I tried, I could destroy objects with the power of my mind....
Osmic Frequencies
...toluene-like” and with a stronger bitter almond character than normal acetophenone. A 2004 study published in Nature Neuroscience tried to refute this claim. The Rockefeller olfactory neurogeneticists Andreas Keller and...