Her face is very squishy and soft, can you tell how it would feel to futz her fur? Reflect on it briefly.
Caity Weaver. Profiled. Justin. Bieber. And. It. Was. So. Good:
The chicken-finger platter that has just been placed before Justin Bieber is like something out of a children’s book—an illustration from a story about a boy who becomes king, whose first and last royal decree is that it’s chicken-finger time. The dish is so massive that in order to accommodate it, a metal urn filled with enough ice and soft drinks to sustain a pioneer family on a trek across Death Valley is moved to an adjacent table. Tenders are not even listed on the menu of this restaurant; its offerings are confined to ideas like “parsnip purée,” “pomegranate gastrique,” and “dill.” The fingers have been conjured, unbidden, out of the invisible fabric of the universe for Justin Bieber, who is not eating them.
How Matt became Mr. Jaya Saxena (inhales, “D’AWWWWWWW):
In the first AOL instant message I got from my husband, he asked if I was okay. Back then he wasn’t my husband; he was just a boy from camp.
I’d estimate it was around 4pm on September 11, 2001 and I lived in Manhattan. I had just returned to my dad’s house uptown after walking home from my high school downtown, and my instinct was to hog the phone line so I could sign on toAOL. Matt and I hadn’t talked since the last day of camp, where we had met that summer, but a mutual friend informed me that he had a crush on me a few days before. I was intrigued, but admittedly more excited about another camp boy who IMed me shortly after Matt did. It turns out that the other camp boy and I didn’t chat much after that, but Matt and I kept talking. He is now my husband.
I mean, obviously you’re going to read this:
Decades before women won the right to vote, Victoria Woodhull ran for president, started her own newspaper, and became one of America’s first female stockbrokers. She also found time to advocate for free love and talk to ghosts.
Well, THIS is cool beans:
A team of physicists who can now count themselves as astronomers announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prophecy of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
That faint rising tone, physicists say, is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago. And it is a ringing (pun intended) confirmation of the nature of black holes, the bottomless gravitational pits from which not even light can escape, which were the most foreboding (and unwelcome) part of his theory.
More generally, it means that scientists have finally tapped into the deepest register of physical reality, where the weirdest and wildest implications of Einstein’s universe become manifest.
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Closing the gender gap in medical research:
In 2004, Dr. Shari Munch published a paper on gender-biased diagnosing, or what she refers to as “a tendency for physicians and other health-care professionals to mislabel women’s somatic complaints as non-serious and/or psychosomatic.” Munch became interested in this dispiriting trend while working as a hospital social worker. During this time, she noticed that when women came into the hospital displaying symptoms of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)—severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy—doctors often implied that what they were experiencing might be stress-related. “It became kind of this theme,” Munch says. And it was a theme she began to research. Her resulting paper recounted the long history of women doubting their own sanity, particularly when it comes to their health, and also foregrounded feminist literature that was starting to bring this problem to light.
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I find it wildly stressful to read articles that think seriously about how we spend too much time on our devices so here’s the link.
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I watched this video of getting a basketball to the testicles more times than strictly necessary (TEAM GRATEFUL FOR INTERNAL GENITALIA FOR LYFE):
Russell went down immediately, almost like when Ivan Drago murdered Apollo Creed, but the game played on for a few seconds before the Lakers had to call a timeout to check on him. He would eventually be okay, and finished the game with 15 points in 28 minutes of play. He was fine after the game, only saying that “it was tough,” but he was also able to laugh about it.
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(weeps):
Eagles co-founder Bernie Leadon and singer-songwriter Jackson Browne will join members Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit for a Grammy tribute honoring Glenn Frey, the Eagles singer-guitarist who died January 18th at age 67. As Billboard reports, it’s likely the performance will include “Take It Easy,” the band’s seminal 1972 folk-rock anthem, which Browne co-wrote with Frey.
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