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Is it 1994? Are we wearing Doc Martens, flowery black dresses and Revlon Raisin Rage? HAS ANYONE SEEN MY NIRVANA CD? Sorry, for a second there, I could’ve sworn we took a hot tub time machine back to my late teens, which was when the little black backpack was the undisputed Queen of All Accessories. Believe it or not, enough time has passed for them to slingshot back into style again. It’s only a matter of time before the beauty gods also bring back pencil thin brows, but that’s a discussion for another day. I’ve been wearing this tiny black...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”.Congratulations to the winners (and their teams), among other things, for being one of the fronts in the fight against cancer.Images obtained of the report for the general public: DNA repair – providing chemical stability for life (PDF).The Nobel committee provide us also an advanced report: Scientific Background: Mechanistic studies of DNA repair (PDF).

So…what is the Monday Poll? Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start. 1. Have you ever dyed your hair red? Not my entire head of hair, no, but I did go through a phase when I had chunky, bright red highlights. They were an obnoxious shade of...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cindy Crawford 💋• (@wonderfulcindy) on Dec 1, 2018 at 2:18pm PST Over the past few days, I’ve probably spent more time that I should readily admit deep-diving into Cindy Crawford’s supermodel days, and I need to say this next bit aloud: Her makeup from the ’90s slays my life. Smoky eye ’til I die, man. Where do I even begin? One could characterize her makeup from that era as “classic,” but COME ON — Cindy Crawford at the height of her supermodel-ness was freaking iconic! I loved her makeup back then,...

Bullshitters. Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives?John Jerrim, Phil Parker, Nikki Shure‘Bullshitters’ are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they actually have little experience or skill. Despite this being a well-known and widespread social phenomenon, relatively few large-scale empirical studies have been conducted into this issue. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by examining teenagers’ propensity to claim expertise in three mathematics constructs that do not really exist. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from nine Anglophone countries and over 40,000 young people, we find...