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Swatches on NC42 skin along with some quick first impressions of the three new MAC Girls palettes, which are out right meow. Three new girls just joined the MAC Girls family, and guess what? They’ve got accessories! This time around MAC made matching lipsticks and glosses to go with the eyeshadow palettes. I’ve still yet to test drive these on my lids and lips, but here are some swatches and thoughts on the Raver Girl, Smarty Pants and Pretty Punk palettes, lipsticks and glosses. Price is now $41 for the Girls Eyeshadow Palettes. Last spring they were$39.50. $18.50 for a...

Highlights to the moon and back! The MAC Shiny Pretty Things Holiday 2018 collection, which is out now in case you were craving high-intensity highlights, is a limited edition launch split into two parts — 1) a makeup collection with eyeshadows, liners, lipsticks, glosses and highlighters, and 2) a whole lotta gift sets. Here’s a look I did today with both of the highlighters from the collection, just to give you an idea of what you could do with them. Mind you, I’m not really a gal who likes to walk around highlighted to the gods, but I was taken...

A variation of Dyson sphere.This and other futuristic ideas by cosmologist Max Tegmark (known for his Mathematical universe hypothesis - Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality) in this interesting Discover article (extracted from his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence) that I just stumbled upon: Our Next Billion Years Thirteen point eight billion years after its birth, our universe has awoken and become aware of itself. From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, repeatedly discovering that everything...

Tabs gave new meaning to the words “haute cat-ure” and “oh, dear” this weekend by unveiling his latest creative cat fashion creation, the Regal Red Reindeer festive collar (complete with jingle bells) and accessorizing headgear. And he couldn’t trust his regular hat person, Jean Luc, for this project, despite Jean Luc’s impeccable reputation as the best milliner on the Champs Elysées. Tabs couldn’t risk the design being leaked to the fashion press before today’s big unveiling, so he kept the final design under lock and key and worked through the night shaping the reindeer antlers himself. Expect to see cats...

Happy 106 birthday to Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), mother of protein crystallography, and Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964.Image caption: A full 3D set of x-ray structure factors obtained by indexing individual diffraction patterns and summing intensities of indexed spots. This is akin to powder diffraction, where every grain is first oriented in 3D.Source & Credit: Protein crystallography using x-ray free-electron lasers (SPIE). Figure courtesy of Thomas White, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science—CFEL—at DESY.)