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Celebrating a Century of Nonlinearity Across the GeosciencesVia EosImage caption: Interaction between deterministic nonlinearity and a random process, as illustrated by a snapshot of the time-dependent attractor of the Lorenz (1963) convection model perturbed by multiplicative noise. This snapshot shows a much more complex structure than the well-known time-independent strange attractor (“butterfly”) of the deterministic model. Credit: Modified from Figure 11 of Ghil (PDF), with permission from Elsevier

Eye cream. Otherwise known as “hope in a jar.” 🙂 It’s been on my mind lately because every time I look in the mirror I wonder if I’ve always looked this tired? Because, duuuude! — I can’t remember the last time I saw my reflection and thought, “Wow, I look like I slept well.” Hence the current eye cream obsession. Looking for a new eye cream I’d been using Clarins Super Restorative Total Eye Concentrate since last fall, but I recently ran out. It was doing a pretty good job…but it wasn’t rocking my world. And that’s what I want!...

My thoughts on pink eyeshadow? I’m into it. I have been ever since high school. My very first pink (because you never forget your first!) was a dainty pale pink frost — Seashell Pink, by Clinique — which I loved to wear from lash line to brow bone when I was a teenager. I know. But wait, it gets better… Sometimes I added a little bit of shimmery bright blue in the outer corner. 😉 Later in high school, when I REALLY started experimenting, I buffed my favorite pink blushes on my lids. One was Clinique New Clover, otherwise known...

No, the Spinster Sisters are not an ’80s new wave synth pop duo. It’s the name of an indie beauty brand from Colorado that I spotted at a bookstore this afternoon. (Side note: I went looking for Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, but they didn’t have it, gah! I really want to read it before the movie comes out.) I love their logo! I can picture two spinster sisters in an old-timey apothecary with glass bottles and brass industrial shelves, crushing herbs by hand with a mortar and pestle before brewing up a batch of soap and body butter. I...

The National Poo Museum Meerkat poo Fossil poo Pigeon poo This is deliriously fascinating.The National Poo Museum  at the Isle of Wight Zoo Like nearly every other creature on earth, we poo. With the right equipment you can find poo on almost any surface - it’s everywhere and it’s inside us too. Poo provokes strong reactions. Small children naturally delight in it but soon learn to avoid this yucky, disease-carrying stuff. Later, we learn that even talking about poo is bad. But for most of us, under the layers of disgust and taboo, the fascination remains. Poo is important. We...