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I feel like I should have at least one Hallmark movie on this list, or maybe even a classic like It’s a Wonderful Life, but you know what? These are the three holiday movies I can watch over and over and over again, and I unapologetically love all of them. 1. The Sound of Music At the top of the list is Sound of Music. I try to watch this one every year, but I don’t always get to because it’s so long — almost three hours (!) — but when I was a kid, every Christmas it was a...

What’s the longest you’ve ever had the same hair style? Hmm… I’d have to say four or five years. I had basically the same long, dark brown layers from 2014 until just recently. Now it’s a little shorter, and I’m trying a center part, which is a new thing for me, and demi-permanent chocolate color, which is also new for me. I also went about five years between the ages of 16-21, also that time with long hair with layers well past my shoulders. I just realized something… Both of those long stretches when I had long layers were periods...

Interesting research about the perspective of the world in persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).For each pair of images, the left image shows how it is perceived by an individual with autism, while the right shows how it is perceived by the control subject. [….] As you can see, the individuals with autism are less drawn to faces and other “meaningful” objects in the scene – a tendency which can lead to challenges in social situations.Via HuffPost ScienceMore: On Caltech News: Probing the Mysterious Perceptual World of AutismPaper: Atypical Visual Saliency in Autism Spectrum Disorder Quantified through Model-Based Eye Tracking

Awesome things you can do (or learn) through TensorFlow. From the site:A Neural Network Playground Um, What Is a Neural Network? It’s a technique for building a computer program that learns from data. It is based very loosely on how we think the human brain works. First, a collection of software “neurons” are created and connected together, allowing them to send messages to each other. Next, the network is asked to solve a problem, which it attempts to do over and over, each time strengthening the connections that lead to success and diminishing those that lead to failure. For a...

And now for something completely different (not), if I had a nickel for every time I watched a YouTube makeup video and thought, “Oh, I can handle that. That’s gonna be easy.” And then I tried it and was like, “What the hell just happened?” — I’d be a rich girl. Yeesh, I’m so out of practice with eyeshadow… It is definitely a perishable skill, at least for me. It’s not like riding a bike, where you can take years off, then hop back on and be like, “Lalala! So easy! This is great!” As you know, I’ve been wanting...