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Mengsel. HOME « Utterly Engaged } The 1st Online Wedding & Bridal Magazine. Inspiring Brides with Style. Classy Vintage Inspired Home & Office. 'A First-Rate Girl': Yates, Franzen, and the Problem of Female Beauty. I have a friend who dates only exceptionally attractive women. These women aren’t trophy-wife types—they are comparable to him in age, education level, and professional status. They are just really, notably good looking, standouts even in the kind of urban milieu where regular workouts and healthy eating are commonplace and an abundance of disposable income to spend on facials, waxing, straightening, and coloring keeps the average level of female attractiveness unusually high. My friend is sensitive and intelligent and, in almost every particular, unlike the stereotypical sexist, T & A-obsessed meathead.

For years, I assumed that it was just his good fortune that the women he felt an emotional connection with all happened to be so damn hot. Over time, however, I came to realize that my friend, nice as he is, prizes extreme beauty above all the other desiderata that one might seek in a partner. Some people would say these men are fatally shallow. For Frank, April represents success. Pop Culture. What We Eat Affects Everything - James Hamblin. How men and women digest differently, diet changes our skin, and gluten remains mysterious: A forward-thinking gastroenterologist on eating one's way to "gutbliss" Robynne Chutkan, MD, is an integrative gastroenterologist and founder of the Digestive Center for Women, just outside of Washington, D.C.

She trained at Columbia University and is on faculty at Georgetown, but her approach to practicing medicine and understanding disease is more holistic than many specialists with academic backgrounds. She has also appeared on The Dr. Oz Show (of which I’ve been openly skeptical in the past, because of Oz’s tendency to divorce his recommendations from evidence). Chutkan’s first book comes out today. Dr. The title of your book is catchy and uses this evocative term "gutbliss. " I did come up with it. So I decided to open an integrative practice where we focus on additional things besides the illness, like the things that created the illness. Home page. 20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Superb Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life. As a hopeless lover of both letters and famous advice, I was delighted to discover a letter 20-year-old Hunter S. Thompson — gonzo journalism godfather, pundit of media politics, dark philosopher — penned to his friend Hume Logan in 1958.

Found in Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (public library | IndieBound) — the aptly titled, superb collection based on Shaun Usher’s indispensable website of the same name — the letter is an exquisite addition to luminaries’ reflections on the meaning of life, speaking to what it really means to find your purpose. Cautious that “all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it” — a caveat other literary legends have stressed with varying degrees of irreverence — Thompson begins with a necessary disclaimer about the very notion of advice-giving: To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. How I Became the Kind of Person Who Can Work a Room. I did it. I went to a cocktail party where I didn't know anyone, and successfully chit-chatted for two hours.

(Not to myself. I actually spoke with other people.) I have never been good at the kind of networking where you're supposed to walk into a room full of strangers and walk out with "connections. " The very idea makes me cringe. But as a writer and reporter, I get invited to more than my fair share of meet-and-greets. Every now and then, I read an invite and think, "Eeek. The Secret to My Big Turnaround These days, I'm actually looking forward to networking receptions. Here's how I learned. Then one of my colleagues told me about the trick he uses: When he walks into a room alone, he looks for pairs of people who are talking, and introduces himself to each person. I had always thought I was supposed to approach people who were by themselves. "Because everyone else is there to meet other people, too," he explained. It Works; It Really, Really Works This is the bizarre thing. Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry.

Online College Courses - Explore 50+ Subjects | Academic Earth. Numeric Photography | Media Arts and Sciences. Best free courses & lectures | The Do It Yourself Scholar. Updated June 29, 2012 Not every teacher is a great teacher. Not every course is a great course. So, this list is my effort to help you separate the winners from the losers. This list of the best academic podcasts and webcasts is a work-in-progress. As I discover new courses and lectures, I add to the list.

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. For a description of my criteria for choosing a course or lecture for this list, click here. A warning: The internet is a changeable place and universities can change their websites without warning. Anthropology Introduction to Biological Anthropology (iTunes), Terrence Deacon, UC Berkeley Deacon’s class is a fascinating mix of biology, genetics, animal ethology and anthropology, as he works his way from single-celled organisms up to human physiology and the evolution of culture. Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (audio), Tara Carter, UCSD World Prehistory (feed) Tara Carter, UCSD Archaeology/Classics Art History Biology Computers Asia. iTunes U - Learn anything, anywhere, anytime. 12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free.

12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free. Free Online Courses from the Best Universities | Academic Earth. Advance Your Education With Free College Courses Online - Udacity. StanfordUniversity. The Craft of Photography. Documenting the Streets: Tips from Dominic Stafford Cambodia-based freelance photographer Dominic Stafford focuses his work on Southeast Asia. Here, he offers tips and examples for photographing the streets — anywhere in the world. Two Seconds to Better Photos: Try the Rule of Thirds We’re constantly taking photos, from Instagrammed images of that really good sandwich at lunch to posed, just-so portraits of family… Set the Scene with a Three-Picture Story I upload sets of photos to my photoblog and use images to liven up posts here all the time, but… Photographing People: Ten Tips From NomadRuss Russ Taylor, aka NomadRuss, is a cultural documentary and NGO photographer, as well as wilderness guide who’s been leading trips… Just Published: A Complete Photography 101 Guide Here’s another free ebook to add to your virtual bookshelf: Photography 101: The Basics of Photography and the Power of… A World Through Lo-Fi: Using Filters on Your Images Hey, Daily Posters!

Photography 101: Editing Basics. Kurt Vonnegut, după ce i-au fost arse cărțile: ”Credeți că noi, scriitorii, suntem niște șobolani!” Numele Liceului Drake din North Dakota a ajuns pe primele pagini ale ziarelor în octombrie 1973 când membrii consiliului de conducere a şcolii au decis să ardă 32 de exemplare ale cărţii Abatorul cinci, scrisă de Kurt Vonnegut, pe motiv că este inacceptabilă. Ziarul Daily News din 1973 îl citează chiar pe preşedintele consiliului de conducere al liceului, Charles McCarthy, care a motivat arderea cărţilor lui Kurt Vonnegut pe motiv că acestea nu erau potrivite pentru copii. “Nu am fost de acord cu limbajul obscen folosit în carte.

Ar putea fi studiată la facultate, dar nu în acest liceu”, a declarat McCarthy în noiembrie 1973. Se pare că imediat după ce cărţile sale au fost arse în public, Vonnegut a trimis o scrisoare conducerii liceului prin care şi-a exprimat dezgustul şi dispreţul faţă de decizia luată. 16 noiembrie 1973 Dragă domnule McCarthy, Vă scriu dumneavoastră în calitate de preşedinte al consiliului de conducere a Liceului Drake. Kurt Vonnegut. 15 Brilliant Chuck Palahniuk Quotes. A Day at the Park.

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