I try to eat both of these things regularly, and sometimes together.
Anna Kendrick is fun.
(Source: funnyordie.com)
"You have a perfect body. That’s your cross to bear. Mine’s that I’m a lady in the street and a freak in the bed."
— If you’re not watching Suburgatory, you really should be. (via entertainmentweekly)
Danglin’ pangolin - Baba, a pangolin, shows off his snake-like tongue at the San Diego Zoo. The animal, native to equatorial Africa and Asia, is on the endangered list.
What a creature and photo. Wild.
I heard someone say, “But Paul, didn’t you also have something published while still in high school?”
Thanks for asking, because I did.
Here is my article from the July 1994 issue of Ultralight Flying magazine.
Students in the shop class at my high school were building an ultralight from scratch as a year-long project. I documented it throughout the year with interviews and pictures for our school newspaper, and then submitted a summary piece for publication to this magazine.
"We have been conditioned to think of reproductive age as a female-only concern, but it isn’t. For decades, neonatologists have known about birth defects linked to older fathers: dwarfism, Apert syndrome (a bone disorder that may result in an elongated head), Marfan syndrome (a disorder of the connective tissue that results in weirdly tall, skinny bodies), and cleft palates. But the associations between parental age and birth defects were largely speculative until this year, when researchers in Iceland, using radically more powerful ways of looking at genomes, established that men pass on more de novo—that is, non-inherited and spontaneously occurring—genetic mutations to their children as they get older. In the scientists’ study, published in Nature, they concluded that the number of genetic mutations that can be acquired from a father increases by two every year of his life, and doubles every 16, so that a 36-year-old man is twice as likely as a 20-year-old to bequeath de novo mutations to his children."
— “How Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society” by Judith Shulevitz, The New Republic. Shulevitz will be on the show today talking about fertility and what it means that many people are waiting to have children. (via nprfreshair)
Unbeknownst to almost every person in the world, after graduating from college I did one story for The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin, in its January 25, 1999 issue. I reviewed “Bravo Broadway” by the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
If it seems like I knew what I talking about in regards to all those Broadway tunes, I can assure you I didn’t. The show’s program was very informative.
I accepted a full-time position at The Lake Country Reporter as a news reporter the following month, thus this was my sole story for The Capital Times. It also stands as my final arts & entertainment review ever.
