Divorce brings growth and acceptance and self-introspection and empowerment. And, divorce brings advantages. That’s right, advantages. Would you believe there are ADVANTAGES of being divorced? Let me share the silver linings of divorce.
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From Mother Nature Network’s Melissa Breyer:
Of all the strange ways to get buried in this world, the western tradition of burial may be the most bizarre. As opposed to many of the funeral rites observed elsewhere, our form of traditional burial – with its embalming fluids, caskets, liners, vaults and tombs – aims to preserve the body for as long as possible, with the express purpose, it would seem, of not returning it to nature. No ashes to ashes, dust to dust for a body pumped with formaldehyde and housed in a metal casket.
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Earth’s waters are home to some of the strangest aquatic creatures, like the scale-less mandarinfish shown here that oozes a toxic mucus for protection.
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
Sure, DARPA is slightly sinister, but it’s so into robots that we’re willing to let that slide. In fact, last year it launched the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and it just announced the top six nine seven teams to advance. But if just the idea of figuring out robotics frustrates you, NC State’s face tracking program literally gets that, and NASA just launched the IRIS solar probe from the belly of a transport jet. It’s Alt-week, baby.
Even for a white-hot prospect like Wendy Davis, charting a path into the governor’s mansion is an exercise in hope that optimistic assumptions hold up, Republicans fumble immigration, and Gov. Rick Perry, who has yet to announce his re-election plans, gives Democrats one last chance to beat him.
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Rochelle Behrens set out in 2011 to fix a common problem for women in the corporate world: gaping shirts; a problem she herself faced. Her company, The Shirt by Rochelle Behrens, was thus born. Here are her answers to my most pressing questions about button-down shirts.
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We didn’t really talk about that noisy controversy having to do with her role as Natalie Portman’s dance double in the film, Black Swan. It’s something that will probably follow her for the rest of her career but it isn’t something that she thinks about. Lane is always looking ahead, never back.
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While I’ll certainly benefit from this change in policy, for bi-national GLBT couples, DOMA’s repeal not only legalizes their relationships, but also makes them able to legally live in the same country together. Even immigration reform would not have had this impact on GLBT immigrants.
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The interesting thing about responding every time he says “why” is that you begin to see how your thinking doesn’t always make sense.
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For years I tried to change my body with diets and exercise, believing that its shape and size were the root of the problem, but I just kept on hating it. When I began exploring fashion and style — dressing in fun, flattering and form-fitting clothes — an unexplored universe opened up to me.
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