How about an entry a day early this time? ...and my first video entry.
A long while ago, a former LJ user posted an equally fascinating and disturbing Internet site that showed how much magazines change the way a model looks before publishing her image on a magazine page:

Exhibit AThe girl on the cover, by the way, was only 14 years old ( Read more... )

It is frustrating as a scientist whenever people make the logical fallacy of assuming one thing causes another just because observation or studies indicate a correlation. (It is doubly frustrating when such claims are made by "scientists ( Read more... )