jueves, 18 de julio de 2013

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Summer Eyes: 16 Hot Eye Makeup Tutorials

Summertime is the perfect time to experiment with color on your eyes. Here are 16 eye makeup tutorials to show you how to wear this season’s hottest looks from playful brights to sexy metallics. Whether you are headed to a wedding or getting together with the girls, find an excuse to take a few extra moments and try one of these pretty how-tos.
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miércoles, 17 de julio de 2013

Do men and women have different brains?

Differences in Male and Female Brain Structure

Scientists have known for a while now that men and women have slightly different brains, but they thought the changes were limited to the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls sex drive and food intake. A few scientists may have admitted that men's brains were indeed bigger, but they would have tried to qualify this finding by telling you that it was because men were bigger. Because brain size has been linked with intelligence, it's very tricky to go around saying that men have bigger brains. Yet men do seem to have women beat here; even when accounting for height and weight differences, men have slightly bigger brains. Does this mean they're smarter? Let's keep going.

In 2001, researchers from Harvard found that certain parts of the brain were differently sized in males and females, which may help balance out the overall size difference. The study found that parts of the frontal lobe, responsible for problem-solving and decision-making, and the limbic cortex, responsible for regulating emotions, were larger in women [source: Hoag]. In men, the parietal cortex, which is involved in space perception, and the amygdala, which regulates sexual and social behavior, were larger [source: Hoag].

Men also have approximately 6.5 times more gray matter in the brain than women, but before the heads of all the men out there start to swell, listen to this: Women have about 10 times more white matter than men do [source: Carey]. This difference may account for differences in how men and women think. Men seem to think with their gray matter, which is full of active neurons. Women think with the white matter, which consists more of connections between the neurons. In this way, a woman's brain is a bit more complicated in setup, but those connections may allow a woman's brain to work faster than a man's [source: Hotz].

If you're a lady still concerned about the size issues brought up in the first paragraph, let's address that now. In women's brains, the neurons are packed in tightly, so that they're closer together. This proximity, in conjunction with speedy connections facilitated by the white matter, is another reason why women's brains work faster. Some women even have as many as 12 percent more neurons than men do [source: Hotz]. In studying women's brains, psychologist Sandra Witelson found that those neurons were most densely crowded on certain layers of the cortex, namely the ones responsible for signals coming in and out of the brain. This, Witelson believed, may be one reason why women tend to score higher on tests that involve language and communication, and she came to believe that these differences were present from birth [source: Hotz].

But the density of women's neurons, much like the size of a guy's brain, isn't any sort of magic bullet for predicting intelligence. Scientists know this because they've conducted imaging studies on how men and women think. As we've said, men use gray matter, and women use white, but they're also accessing different sections of the brain for the same task. In one study, men and women were asked to sound out different words. Men relied on just one small area on the left side of the brain to complete the task, while the majority of women used areas in both sides of the brain [source: Kolata]. However, both men and women sounded out the words equally well, indicating that there is more than one way for the brain to arrive at the same result. For example, while women get stuck with a bad reputation for reading maps, it may just be that they orient to landmarks differently. And as for intelligence, average IQ scores are the same for both men and women [source: Crenson].

But do we get to these IQ scores through nature or nurture? On the next page, we'll examine whether these different brain structures are set at birth, or whether they're shaped by the environment.

martes, 16 de julio de 2013

1945–60 in fashion

Fashion in the years following World War II is characterized by the resurgence of haute couture after the austerity of the war years. Square shoulders and short skirts were replaced by the soft femininity of Christian Dior's "New Look" silhouette, with its sweeping longer skirts, fitted waist, and rounded shoulders, which in turn gave way to an unfitted, structural look in the later 1950s.
Innovations in textile technology following the war resulted in new synthetic fabrics and easy-care fabric finishes that fitted the suburban lifestyle of the 1950s with its emphasis on casual sportswear for both men and women. For the first time, teenagers became a force in fashion.

The return of fashion[edit]

By 1947, the Paris fashion houses had reopened, and once again Paris resumed its position as the arbiter of high fashion. The "orderly, rhythmic evolution of fashion change"^[1] had been disrupted by the war, and a new direction was long overdue. A succession of style trends led by Christian Dior and Cristóbal Balenciaga defined the changing silhouette of women's clothes through the 1950s. Television joined fashion magazines and movies in disseminating clothing styles.^[1]^[2]

Casual clothing and teenage style[edit]

One result of the Post-World War II economic expansion was a flood of synthetic fabrics and easy-care processes. "Drip-dry" nylon, orlon and dacron, which could retain heat-set pleats after washing, became immensely popular. Acrylic, polyester, triacetate and spandex were all introduced in the 1950s.

Miss America contestant Yolande Betbeze wears the co-ed's uniform of a short-sleeve sweater and pencil skirt, with high heels, 1950.

Social changes went hand-in-hand with new economic realities, and one result was that many young people who would have become wage-earners early in their teens before the war now remained at home and dependent upon their parents through high school and beyond, establishing the notion of the teenage years as a separate stage of development.Teens and college co-eds adopted skirts and sweaters as a virtual uniform, and the American fashion industry began to target teenagers as a specialized market segment in the 1940s.
In the United Kingdom, the Teddy boys of the post-war period created the "first truly independent fashions for young people", favouring an exaggerated version of the Edwardian-flavoured British fashion with skinny ties and narrow, tight trousers worn short enough to show off garish socks. In North America, greasers had a similar social position. Previously, teenagers dressed similarly to their parents, but now a rebellious and different youth style was being developed.
Young adults returning to college under the G.I. Bill adopted an unpretentious, functional wardrobe, and continued to wear blue jeans with shirts and pullovers for general informal wear after leaving school.^[6] Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948, generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time. The term "beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1958, and the stereotypical "beat" look of sunglasses, berets, black turtlenecks, and unadorned dark clothing provided another fashion alternative for youths of both sexes, encouraged by the marketing specialists of Madison Avenue.

Lisa Fonssagrives in an tailored suit features a long pencil skirt and a fitted jacket with peplum. Photograph by Toni Frissell for Harper's Bazaar, London, 1951

Evening gown by Dior, silk taffeta, 1954. Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Natalie Wood (center, with Tab Hunter) and Louella Parsons wear ballerina-length evening gowns at the Academy Awards, 1956.

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lunes, 15 de julio de 2013

Quiz: What's Your Memory Like—Good or Bad?

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viernes, 12 de julio de 2013

READY-TO-WEAR fall-winter 2013-2014

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120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential.

Solve puzzles and brainteasers.
Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fork.
Embrace ambiguity. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions.
Learn mind mapping.
Block one or more senses. Eat blindfolded, wear earplugs, shower with your eyes closed.
Develop comparative tasting. Learn to properly taste wine, chocolate, beer,cheese or anything else.
Find intersections between seemingly unrelated topics.
Learn to use different keyboard layouts. Try Colemak or Dvorak for a full mind twist!
Find novel uses for common objects. How many different uses can you find for a nail? 10? 100?
Reverse your assumptions.
Learn creativity techniques.
Go beyond the first, ‘right’ answer.
Transpose reality. Ask “What if?” questions.
SCAMPER!
Turn pictures or the desktop wallpaper upside down.
Become a critical thinker. Learn to spot common fallacies.
Learn logic. Solve logic puzzles.
Get familiar with the scientific method.
Draw. Doodle. You don’t need to be an artist.
Think positive.
Engage in arts — sculpt, paint, play music — or any other artistic endeavor.
Learn to juggle.
Eat ‘brain foods’.
Be slightly hungry.
Exercise!
Sit up straight.
Drink lots of water.
Deep-breathe.
Laugh!
Vary activities. Get a hobby.
Sleep well.
Power nap.
Listen to music.
Conquer procrastination.
Go technology-less.
Look for brain resources in the web.
Change clothes. Go barefoot.
Master self-talk.
Simplify!
Play chess or other board games. Play via Internet (particularly interesting is toplay an ongoing game by e-mail).
Play ‘brain’ games. Sudoku, crossword puzzles or countless others.
Be childish!
Play video games.
Be humorous! Write or create a joke.
Create a List of 100.
Have an Idea Quota.
Capture every idea. Keep an idea bank.
Incubate ideas. Let ideas percolate. Return to them at regular intervals.
Engage in ‘theme observation’. Try to spot the color red as many times as possible in a day. Find cars of a particular make. Invent a theme and focus on it.
Keep a journal.
Learn a foreign language.
Eat at different restaurants – ethnic restaurants specially.
Learn how to program a computer.
Spell long words backwards. !gnignellahC
Change your environment. Change the placement of objects or furniture — or go somewhere else.
Write! Write a story, poetry, start a blog.
Learn sign language.
Learn a musical instrument.
Visit a museum.
Study how the brain works.
Learn to speed-read.
Find out your learning style.
Dump the calendar!
Try to mentally estimate the passage of time.
“Guesstimate”. Are there more leaves in the Amazon rainforest or neuron connections in your brain? (answer).
Make friends with math. Fight ‘innumeracy’.
Build a Memory Palace.
Learn a peg system for memory.
Have sex! (sorry, no links for this one! )
Memorize people’s names.
Meditate. Cultivate mindfulness and an empty mind.
Watch movies from different genres.
Turn off the TV.
Improve your concentration.
Get in touch with nature.
Do mental math.
Have a half-speed day.
Change the speed of certain activities. Go either super-slow or super-fast deliberately.
Do one thing at a time.
Be aware of cognitive biases.
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. How would different people think or solve your problems? How would a fool tackle it?
Adopt an attitude of contemplation.
Take time for solitude and relaxation.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning.
Travel abroad. Learn about different lifestyles.
Adopt a genius. (Leonardo is excellent company!)
Have a network of supportive friends.
Get competitive.
Don’t stick with only like-minded people. Have people around that disagree with you.
Brainstorm!
Change your perspective. Short/long-term, individual/collective.
Go to the root of the problems.
Collect quotes.
Change the media you’re working on. Use paper instead of the computer; voice recording instead of writing.
Read the classics.
Develop your reading skill. Reading effectively is a skill. Master it.
Summarize books.
Develop self-awareness.
Say your problems out loud.
Describe one experience in painstaking detail.
Learn Braille. You can start learning the floor numbers while going up or down the elevator.
Buy a piece of art that disturbs you. Stimulate your senses in thought-provoking ways.
Try different perfumes and scents.
Mix your senses. How much does the color pink weigh? How does lavender scent sound?
Debate! Defend an argument. Try taking the opposite side, too.
Use time boxing.
Allocate time for brain development.
Have your own mental sanctuary.
Be curious!
Challenge yourself.
Develop your visualization skills. Use it at least 5 minutes a day.
Take notes of your dreams. Keep a notebook by your bedside and record your dreams first thing in the morning or as you wake up from them.
Learn to lucid dream.
Keep a lexicon of interesting words. Invent your own words.
Find metaphors. Connect abstract and specific concepts.
Manage stress.
Get random input. Write about a random word in a magazine. Read random sites using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia.
Take different routes each day. Change the streets you follow to work, jog or go back home.
Install a different operating system on your computer.
Improve your vocabulary.
Deliver more than what’s expected.

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