Should you be getting Botox? Welcome to Ask Ugly, our new beauty column!
You won’t get suggestions for the best new niacinamide serum from Ask Ugly. Just eat a sandwich. I won’t recommend some celebrity-loved surgery for sucking the fat from your face – it needs fat. Instead, I want to dig into capital-B Beauty here: what it is, what it means, and how it’s been industrialized and assembly-line machine-squeezed into billions of plastic bottles.
Person who makes it easy for restaurant workers to clean up.
Person who tries to reach for subway handle without taking eyes off their phone and misses.
Person who wants to photograph their pets, but cannot reach their phone without disturbing the pets and thus ruining the shot.
Japan’s hilarious Jimi Halloween (jimi means “mundane”) event is where participants dress up in “costumes” that illustrate boring everyday situations.
Think of your browser like an ongoing autobiography. Why would you ever delete it?
The digital experience has wreaked untold damage, especially upon the young. But all is not lost.
Forests once deemed resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change, researchers need to understand how trees die.
Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it.
“In some sense Barbie invites more of a critique because she is a role model of mass consumption, but she isn’t given that critique,” Wright said. “She is like other female archetypes, really criticized for what she represents and how she’s presenting herself in the world. It really comes back to women’s embodiment and what that symbolizes.”
Below the Earth’s surface lies over a thousand times more water than all the rivers and lakes in the world.
This groundwater accounts for almost all the freshwater on the planet.
But in many areas of the world, groundwater is being extracted faster than the rate that it naturally recharges.
A recent study found that humans are pumping so much groundwater that it’s not only increasing sea levels, it’s actually shifting the entire planet on its axis.
