I was seduced into buying a copy of Vogue today. This happens about once every three months or so; the siren call of artistic photo spreads and shallow, mindless narcissism becomes too much for me, and against my more thrifty upbringing, I buy and secretly revel in a supermarket glossy, generally Vogue (since it's more artsy, and makes you look ( Read more... )

I was poking around on the US Census Bureau's website for info on an article I'm working on, and ran across some fun numbers ( Read more... )

Oooo, and did you know that Michelangelo and Raphael were painting in the Vatican at the same time (Sistine Chapel & School of Athens), and therefore might well have run into each other on lunch breaks!