As part of the “Selfie Harm” series by Rankin, teens made their noses narrower, slimmed their faces, edited out freckles, enlarged eyes and lips, and added makeup.
Source: INSIDER
Thoughts about things we find facinating
As part of the “Selfie Harm” series by Rankin, teens made their noses narrower, slimmed their faces, edited out freckles, enlarged eyes and lips, and added makeup.
Source: INSIDER
Winsomely captured in poems and song, the birds are yielding new secrets about their astounding beaks and penchant for violence.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Written by Andy Ludlum, Library Volunteer
Recorded interviews in the Research Library’s oral history collection give us a glimpse into the lives of two remarkable women who were members of the earliest African American families to settle in Ventura.
Source: Museum of Ventura County
She is now the co-author of a study that seeks to quantify this underreported problem
Source: Smithsonian
So my wife buys one item at a CVS pharmacy for $4.17 cash and gets this receipt back. It’s 4 1/2 feet long!!! It turns out I’m not the only one disgusted by the practice. My sister says she saw a meme comparing a CVS receipt to Megan Markle’s wedding veil! A friend said she asked CVS if they owned a tree farm! Come on CVS, this does not make me want buy anything from you. Do the right thing. Save a forest.
Sixty years ago, stereo promised to forever change the way people listened to music. But how could record companies convince customers to buy a new record player, speakers and amplifier?
Source: The Conversation
The Woolsey Fire burned nearly all the vegetation on the hills surrounding our home. One of the surprises in the aftermath of the fire is discovering the things that have been completely obscured by brush for years, such as this car wreck which is just below the ridgeline. My wife Rodi and our trusty dog Luna hiked straight up the steep hill to get this view of the long lost car.
I used to think after each horrific shooting that now -finally – something would have to be done.
Each event seemed more terrible than the last. Surely murdering kindergarteners would bring people together to demand change. Surely cutting down teenagers in their classrooms would make people say enough is enough. Surely mowing down a crowd in a Las Vegas plaza would lead people to cry out for this senseless violence to stop. Continue reading “Time to admit owning 40% of the world’s guns is wrong”
We have no hurricanes, cyclones or statewide freezes in California. Everything else, we have.
Source: latimes.com