Checking Privilege-Checking - Phoebe Maltz Bovy. 8 Common Misteaks Mistakes People Make When Cooking Steak. We love a juicy, well-cooked (though not well-done!) Steak. When you’ve got a quality piece of meat, you don’t have to gussy it up with complicated cooking techniques and extravagant sauces—and that’s precisely why we love it. It’s simplicity at its best: just good, old fashioned, unfussy eatin’. So why is cooking a steak so darn difficult? From a tragically gray exterior to an overly-cooked inside, there are so many ways to go wrong. But fear not! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Ready to make some magic happen? Why psychopaths are more successful. Could It Be That Long-Distance Relationships Are Actually Healthy? Long-distance relationships, it turns out, may not only be a last resort for the hopelessly lonesome and socially weird. A Queen’s University study recently found relationship-satisfaction levels for long-distance and “geographically close” couples to be virtually indistinguishable on nearly all measures, including sexual satisfaction.
Oddly enough, digital communication may actually be more romantic than face-to-face interaction: A study from Cornell University found that confessions made via one-on-one web chat were consistently considered more intimate than identical confessions made in person. Call it the Manti Te’o phenomenon, the tendency some people have to ignore a campus full of suitable partners in favor of the one conjured digitally. “In real dating, nobody waits,” my friend Holly observed, which means long-distance dating is “like all those sexy-time suburban-mom books about delaying sex for made-up reasons like vampire death so there can be sexual buildup.” Judy Greer's New Book Is Great and You Should Totally Read It. Emma Stone Tries to Put an End to Self Body Shaming.
For most of my life, I’ve been considered “too skinny” by adults and peers alike. In middle school, people joked that I had an eating disorder, which was unpleasant to hear but better than being called overweight, I told myself. Then came college and with it came the inevitable body changes of drastic lifestyle shifting, growing up, studying abroad and moving out of my mom’s place. When I returned home at the end of one summer, a grown male neighbor took it upon himself to point out my significant weight gain, which I was supposed to take as a compliment because I’d been “too thin” all those years anyway.
I was instructed to thank the guy, but all I wanted to do was strangle him on his own lawn. When it comes to appearance, nobody is safe from criticism, and life savant Emma Stone unfortunately knows all about this. Yeah, it really does, and I’m not afraid to say the “real women have curves” movement is part of the problem. I think this is something we can all work on, myself included. Advice to High School Graduates: 'You Are Not Special' - Amy Quick Parrish. English teacher David McCullough Jr. thinks students need to stop trying to excel at everything. J.D. Pooley/AP Photo On a spring day in 2012, Wellesley High School English teacher David McCullough Jr. stepped onto the school’s football field, then covered in a sea of seniors dressed in identical caps and gowns.
Clad in a blazer and striped tie, McCullough made his way to the podium, donned his reading glasses, and began his commencement speech. Nothing about the event seemed out of the ordinary. McCullough, after all, was participating in a ritual that happens hundreds of thousands of times across the United States each year. But compared to the countless other remarks given by comedians, journalists, and politicians that year, McCullough’s speech stood out for its blunt, four-word message: “You are not special.” The immediate reaction to the address was positive. The reaction caught McCullough by surprise. “I was floored. Wellesley, Massachusetts is a special place. How materialism makes us sad | Tanya Gold.
'Money is a brutalising agent and a paranoiac drug.' Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters Graham Music, a psychotherapist, has written a book called The Good Life: Wellbeing and the New Science of Altruism, Selfishness and Immorality. It confirms, through use of data collected by scientists over the last 40 years, what we have all long suspected from anecdote and our own eyes: the materialistic tend to be unhappy, those with material goods will remain unhappy, and the market feeds on unhappiness. It is an outreach programme for personal and political desolation; and it is, so far, an outstanding success. I have struggled, for instance, to understand why a British cabinet so loaded with the affluent should be blithe in taking from those who have less – the destruction of the educational maintenance allowance, the bedroom tax, the despicable campaign against disabled people and the unemployed, and so on and on.
Except it is not class war. Even the language corrupts. Más que piñatas | Urban Closet. Geometria, folclore, efímeras...pero lo más importante; son capaces de generar alegría y eso las hace ¡mágicas! Marta Martínez Canal on 05/05/2014 - 11:35 in Deco Hoy os vamos a presentar un proyecto muy especial: Más que Piñatas. La creadora de estos artefactos es una persona muy intuitiva, con un gusto estético excepcional. Arquitecta y paisajista, no puede parar quieta.
Su nuevo proyecto mezcla el folclore con la decoración y el producto artesanal. Las piñatas son artefactos efímeros, que tienen una vida muy corta porque están hechas para acabar hechas pedazos a golpe de felicidad. Podéis conseguir las piñatas y las máscaras en su tienda online. Artesanal craft Decoración Máscaras piñatas Marta Martínez Canal Ingeniera, fotógrafa y curiosa. Star Wars' Original, Scum-Caked Brilliance - Noah Berlatsky. Haters have a point: Lucas's movies are shoddily made. But that's part of why they're great. LucasFilm The announcement of the cast of the new Star Wars sequel has unleashed some pent-up backlash. Much of this backlash has been focused on the fact that the cast appears to include only one new female role, which has, in turn, reminded folks of how rotten the original series' gender representation was (see here, here, or my own take here.) But Star Wars hate hasn't just been limited to the role of women in the series.
Lewis Beale, for example, took the cast announcement as an opportunity to declare the franchise to be "the worst thing ever for the science fiction genre. " Having just rewatched the original trilogy, I can sympathize with Beale, Rosenbaum, and any and all of the series' other critics. And yet, while its flaws are glaring, the series is still a work of genius. The B-movie shoddiness of actors and aesthetics in Star Wars is often what critics don't like. GoT Lifts Veil on Its Most Influential Person. As usual, some crazy stuff went down on Game of Thrones tonight, and we might as well get into it. It should go without saying that if you haven’t seen the episode, don’t click through, as there will be some massive spoilers. The biggest plot reveal to date on Game of Thrones occurred 18 minutes into tonight’s episode, “First of His Name,” when Lysa Arryn reminds Petyr Baelish, in between flurries of slobbery kisses, that she’d poisoned her husband, Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, and then sent a misleading note of warning to her sister, Catelyn Stark, all because her childhood crush had asked her to.
Those events, of course, set the show’s action in motion back in the very first episode: The former pushed King Robert Baratheon northward to Winterfell to ask his old buddy Eddard Stark to take over as the next Hand of the King, and the latter compelled Ned to accept the offer so that he could investigate his poisoned father figure’s untimely death in King’s Landing. Good stuff. 1. 2. What Millennials Want—And Why Cities Are Right to Pay Them So Much Attention - Anthony Flint. As a baby boomer myself, I'll confess to feeling a bit like, enough with all this talk about the Millennials already.
But the reality is, those born roughly between 1982 and 2001 form a demographic cohort of some 80 million Americans. So it’s not surprising that U.S. cities are paying a lot of attention to what they want—now and in the future—in terms of the places they live. For cities, the resurgent interest in downtown living has long been attributed to aging boomers—those born roughly between 1945 and 1964, an estimated 80 million as well, many of whom have already become empty-nesters and sold the house in the suburbs and “right-sized” to a condo near the symphony and fabulous bistros. Another significant segment of growing urban populations, of course, are the young professionals and what Richard Florida calls the “creative class.”
Millennials are something else again. Two public opinion polls came out in the last month suggesting the kinds of places Millennials like. Why The Big Bang Theory Is TV's No. 1 Show. TV shows are not supposed to be this popular, not in the age of DVRs, Netflix, and cord-cutting. Nevertheless, CBS’s The Big Bang Theory—an old-fashioned multi-camera comedy about four nerdy men and three women who tolerate them—is not only television’s No. 1 show but also the highest-rated sitcom since Friends signed off in 2004. Here’s why. “It’s a cast of comedy pros,” says Jaime Weinman, critic for Maclean’s. “Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco were sitcom vets. Jim Parsons became the breakout star. Since The Cosby Show, viewers have been trained to tune in on Thursday nights, which is when Big Bang has aired since 2010 (it used to air on Mondays). CBS is TV’s No. 1 network. Among comedies, ABC’s Modern Family is The Big Bang Theory’s nearest rival.
The demos: The Big Bang Theory is a true 8-to-80 hit: Factoring out sports, it dominates a wide variety of demographic groups. The number of people who watched at least six minutes of The Big Bang Theory this season: 84.2 million. It was your help that kept me going, says cancer sufferer Stephen Sutton. Writing on his Facebook page shortly after arriving back at his home in Burntwood, Staffordshire, he said he was looking forward to receiving visits from all the people who had expressed a desire to see him – but not quite just yet. He said: “I am still physically recovering and as much I’d love to, it would not be viable for me to spend time with everyone who wants to see me.
I know that everyone means well, but I do need to rest, so direct phone calls or unexpected visits to my home will not really be appropriate at the moment. I’m happy to help where I can, but I’m still only human and need to safeguard some kind of privacy for me and my family!” The 19-year-old singled out three of the many celebrities who lent their support to his fundraising efforts for the Teenage Cancer Trust: Jason Manford and Tim Minchin, the comics, and Skrillex, the American singer-songwriter. Creating a Strong Company Culture. NEW YORK, United States — No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture.
I have been lucky to piece together the wisdom of many who have gone before me. Most of the time when you need something at a young company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you create it. If you need a head of marketing, you hire one. If you want to create a great company culture, what do you do? The lack of a clear answer on this is why I believe most companies don’t have a great culture. Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. This is hard to say because it sounds mean: the people you fire are more important to your culture than the people you hire. By the time you see a culture is bad — or more often (and just as pernicious) only okay — it’s a complex thing you’re dealing with, like a Mexican mole sauce with 29 ingredients that tastes funny but you don’t know why.
When hiring, it is tempting to employ someone who has done it before. Bring the Guillotine Back to Death Row - Conor Friedersdorf. Workers clean and dismantle the guillotine after the May 25, 1946, execution of convicted serial killer Dr. Marcel Petiot in Paris. Bloodstains are visible on the pavement. (Associated Press) If I were governor of a state that executed prisoners I'd declare a moratorium for my entire tenure. I wish that the United States would stop imposing the death penalty.
I nevertheless find myself nodding along to Sonny Bunch's case for reintroducing the guillotine, a response to the botched execution of a death-row inmate in Oklahoma. He argues that America has made its executions bloodless to protect the sensibilities of those who support the death penalty, with less humane killings as a result. Bunch writes: The guillotine really seems to solve everyone’s problems: It was designed to deliver an efficient, quick, and painless death.
I can imagine one objection: that the guillotine is barbaric. But to me, that's a point in its favor. That's not what Bunch intends. Reasons Being Single Is Amazing - Spinster Chic. "Spinster" is traditionally a divisive, pejorative, incendiary word. Maybe because it's the only equivalent we've got to "bachelor" (seriously!) , and over a few centuries, it really hasn't aged so well.
But why? What if this historically dismissed and depressing moniker was somehow re-imagined as...Spinster Chic? Hear us out. Illustrated by Peter Karras Begin Slideshow. How to Parlay Your Fashion Internship Into a Job: 7 Tips From People Who Did It. Internships are a hot topic lately: It's summer, which means hordes of college students (like you perhaps) and recent graduates are embarking on new internships--but also, the legality of unpaid internships has come to a head with a recent lawsuit. In Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, a federal judge in New York ruled that unpaid interns in two production crews, including one from Black Swan, were entitled to payment, and that by not paying them, Fox Searchlight had been violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.
While the case did not specifically involve the fashion industry, its implications do. Could unpaid internships become illegal across all industries? It's possible. Internships are considered an important and necessary stepping stone to entering the job market--especially in the fashion industry. The hope is, generally, that an internship will eventually turn into a job. Or maybe they're a useless waste of time and money. Intern at a small company. Do those extra little things. Starting a Conversation About Mental Health.
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