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Among the things I’ve accomplished thus far in my life… Met the sweetest, most loving, most fashionable feline in the greater Bay Area and quite possibly the world, and it officially turned me into a full-tilt crazy cat lady. Found THE ULTIMATE BROWNIE RECIPE. Totally embarrassed myself in front of François Nars. And now I can add witnessing the setting of a Guinness world record in the brow arts to the list! Dude, I was obsessed with the Guinness Book of World’s Records when I was a kid (was I the only one?). The latest edition was always the first...

Big kisses to you, Stila Beso, for always being there for us makeup lovers who apply lipstick at the last minute in the car using the rearview mirror before dashing into work. You make it easy to look like we, ya know…actually had our act together. LOL. Friend, I predict that this could be your new default matte red lip color (if it isn’t one of your faves already), because Beso is opaque. Beso is smooth. Beso has a lovely liquid-y texture, and it starts off creamy and slick. It eases along lips and around edges, so you definitely don’t...

Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weaponsVia theguardian.comThe authors argue that AI can be used to make the battlefield a safer place for military personnel, but that offensive weapons that operate on their own would lower the threshold of going to battle and result in greater loss of human life.I get the impression that this is too exaggerated, and we’re far from a “rise of the machines” (neither military nor civilian), so this might be just a bit of summer noise, this is my bet.

Marie Curie and President Warren Harding walk down the White House steps arm in arm in 1921. (Library of Congress - More picture info)I didn’t know about this episode:Curie, who lived in France for much of her life, had done an interview with an American reporter named Marie Meloney the year before. In that interview, she told Meloney that she didn’t have any radium to continue her research and that she couldn’t afford any, writes Ann Lewicki in the journal Radiology. After a fundraising campaign led by American women, Curie travelled to the United States to be presented with one gram...

Lovely, but behind there is only pragmatism:Sodium and some of those other micronutrients are hard to find in nature,“ explained Carlos de la Rosa, an aquatic ecologist and director of Costa Rica’s La Selva Biological Station, to National Geographic. "Butterflies and bees consume nectar, and nectar does not have a lot of salt. But they still need salt for egg production and for their metabolism.” […] They often sip on animal urine, muddy river banks, sweaty clothes and sweaty people. Given the chance, butterflies will also drink crocodile tears.Via HuffPost Science: Striking Photo Captures Butterflies Drinking Turtle Tears