Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
...to a makeup artist and they look at your skin and characterize what product is going to work. I took the manual process and tried to automate it. So once...
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
...long-term immunocontraception vaccine, has also been experimentally used. Local municipalities with overabundant deer have tried tubal ligation and surgically removing ovaries, techniques that cost tens of thousands of dollars per...
Blue Skies
...to footage, the “truth” is unlikely to drift too far. Police departments have long tried to predict singular episodes of crime through general patterns and data. The real advantage of...
Fail Worse
...Workweek by Timothy Ferris: “ ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the...
May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow
...themselves and tried to take control, visibly or secretly. What's of interest, then, in the text is neither their rather flat account of how "repressive society," that endlessly indistinct notion,...
“The men will not do it”: 19th Century Sex Work and Reform
...to function as employment agencies that provided material aid and shelter. Although the women of early and mid-century reform societies had negative stereotypes about the women they tried to “save”...
Needles and the Damage Done
...went off to college, I tried to erase all trace of my small-town upbringing. I thought about Needles as little as possible, and only went back for brief visits at...
This Week in Art Crime
...the man put up quite a fight, injuring two officers while they tried to arrest him, with Detective Inspector Brendon Cullen saying one officer suffered a shoulder injury. (via) •...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.31.12
...its own benefit. Biden Bergamot Body Butter: Bliss releases a limited-edition election product pair: orange-scented O-bama lotion, and Mint Romney lotion. I've tried to think about why this makes my...
Beyond MLK
...been called out by activists repeatedly for his riot-shaming and victim-blaming, yet rather than apologizing, the great patriarch has tried to bad-jacket them as “provocateurs.” But the street kids made...
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...
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...Teachers tried to mitigate the problem by writing multiple versions of the same test, swapping in different versions of the same questions, or mixing up their order. That may have...
Sweet VR of California
Sweet Valley is a digital utopia where bodiless souls can explore psychedelic understandings through a networked VR high-school cult
Empire Records
...while Muslim must have been dots crying out to be connected. In order to do so, it tried to turn Ould Slahi’s itinerant nature against him, by targeting him at...
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
...and asked to discuss oral literature. We didn't. After a few false starts, the discussion finally found itself contemplating the literary and aesthetic values of rap music and slam poetry....
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft