“Give her the gift that even Santa can’t deliver.” I wish I were joking about this.  While I believe that pap smears are not only a great idea and essential to women’s health and saving lives, I do not believe that a pap smear is a great Christmas present idea for the woman in your...
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John Galliano has designed a minimalist blue tree for Claridge’s in London. The tree, which takes it’s inspiration from icy snow scenes, mixed with a tropical twist, dominates the hotel’s lobby. It is painted in white and metallic blue and perched among its branches are a handmade leopard, several parrots and a dragonfly.  As...
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The hair scrunchie has been a definite fashion out since Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) on Sex And The City fought with her guy-of-the-moment, Jack Berger, about the long suffering hair accessory.  As a brief recap, Carrie pointed out Jack’s inappropriate use of the so-over scrunchie in his latest novel. Carrie tries to convince Berger that...
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I am not a huge Black Friday shopper.  I mean that in the sense that I don’t wake up early and go shopping at big box retail stores looking for crazy bargains with crazy people so I can have some kind of crazy Christmas a month from now.  Yet I do have my own...
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I was doing my regular online reading of newspapers this morning and came across this gem of a letter on the New York Times food blog.  It stood out to me for two reasons.  One because the guy asked if there was a potential chance he may kill his guests with his cooking.  The...
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While trying to make compounds with novel electronic properties, chemists from Oregon State University accidentally came across a whole new pigment of blue.  Why is this such a big deal? The New York Times reports that blue pigments of the past have often been expensive (ultramarine blue was made from the gemstone lapis lazuli, ground...
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