For many men, shaving is an everyday grooming task that is quick, easy, and painless (some guys even find it therapeutic). But, as you get older, taming your stubble can become an uphill struggle.As your skin loses its elasticity and sags slightly, getting an even, cut-free shave isn’t so easy. Sometimes, even the best safety razors don’t quite cut the mustard. But, the good news is, there are products out there to make your morning shave easier. Oh yeah, the best electric razor for elderly man is designed to make your morning grooming routine swift, simple, and painless. Coupled with…
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If you’re in search of some of the best scents for men, Cremo is often, well, the cream of the crop. With a range of irresistible concoctions for a very reasonable price tag, Cremo colognes offer a little something for every type of gent.I’ve owned a mix of Cremo colognes over the years and their long-lasting scents have never let me down. But, with so many products on the market, how do you know which ones are right for you? The best Cremo cologne will suit your personal tastes down to the finest detail while going the extra mile—and I’m…
Whether you’re a fella into his body art or you’re thinking about getting inked for the first time, looking after your creation in those all-important early days is vital.When the needle stops buzzing and the ink sets in, the aftercare begins—and if you’re looking to give your tattoos a chance to shine—choosing the right antibacterial soap is the way to go. The best antibacterial soap for tattoos will help to preserve and protect your tattoo while moisturizing the skin and preventing any nasty infections from rearing their ugly head. Some of them smell awesome, too. But, with so many products…
Maths not mystics Kit Yates’ new book offers a gold mine of anecdotes about how maths can help us to make choices about the future, including how psychics use ruses to appear to have the same power. (Courtesy: iStock/urbazon) Middle bias, randomness bias, linearity bias, normalcy bias – the list of cognitive glitches that can send us chasing after red herrings or playing into the hands of manipulators goes on and on. With so many forms of faulty cognition vying for our attention, it’s a wonder any of us achieve anything at all. In How to Expect the Unexpected: the…
Going with the flow: artist’s impression of the preferential flow of water molecules containing oxygen-17 into a human cell. (Courtesy: PNAS) The effect that nuclear spins have on certain biological processes has been observed for the first time by researchers in Israel. The team led by Yossi Paltiel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem performed two experiments that showed how interactions between oxygen isotopes and chiral biomolecules depend on the isotopes’ nuclear spin. Many processes in the natural world are affected by the spin of electrons — including photosynthesis, and the ability of some animals to sense Earth’s magnetic field.…
AFM snapshot showing the formation and progression of local wrinkles induced by the transformation of the middle organic glass layer into a supercooled liquid. Courtesy: J RodrÃguez-Viejo The first direct, real-time observations of an ultrastable glass as it “relaxes†into a supercooled liquid have enabled researchers to quantify a previously mysterious process known as the glass transition. This transition plays a crucial role in numerous fields, including biomedical cryopreservation, drug synthesis, electronic device manufacture and tissue engineering to cite but a few examples. The work could also have implications for solar cells, which often have a coating of patterned glass.…
Overlay of a star-trail photograph, in which stars (white arcs) appear to rotate around the north celestial pole, and a numerical simulation of time-invariant polarization lines (dark lines) as measured by a polarimetric camera during daytime. Courtesy: Thomas Kronland-Martinet (CNRS/Aix-Marseille University), and ESO/B Tafreshi (twanight.org) Can you tell which way is north just by looking at the daytime sky, without using a compass or GPS or even knowing the position of the Sun? Thanks to a new optical method, the answer could soon be “yesâ€. Developed by researchers at Aix-Marseille University in France, the method works by analysing the polarization…
When the materials scientist Ross Colman and colleagues read a preprint claiming that a material called LK-99 is a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure, they set out to replicate the result in their lab. But unlike other scientists doing the same thing, Colman’s group decided to share their work with the public in real time. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Colman – who is at Czechia’s Charles University – talks about the challenges of trying to reproduce someone else’s research and why the team was unable to replicate the observation of room temperature superconductivity.…
Wide open question: binary-star observations back MOND.(Courtesy: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA)) A new study of data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space mission claims to have found evidence of gravity acting contrary to the predictions of Newton and Einstein, but not everyone agrees that this is the smoking gun for a theory of modified gravity. Observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters show that the gravitational forces binding these structures together are greater than those expected from the matter they contain. This has led physicists to predict the existence of dark matter, which is a hypothetical material…
Aisha Abdel Gawad’s debut, Between Two Moons, is a striking novel about being an immigrant and Muslim in post-9/11 America, about battling the blasé of youth with the burdens of womanhood. It’s June. Muslims in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn are ready to welcome with fervor the holy month of Ramadan. Twins, Amira and Lina, are only half prepared for the hunger and thirst pangs as they are days away from graduating high school, their minds swirling with plans to make this summer count. This will be the summer of freedom, before Amira heads for college in the Fall. This will be…
There’s something inherently magical about reading in the summer. Perhaps it dates back to those formative elementary school days of furiously cataloging summer reads for the chance at winning a free personal pizza, but the words “summer” and “reading” bring only positive associations to mind. With only a few weeks of summer left, indie booksellers from across the country have submitted recommendations for their favorite 2023 beach read and are here to make sure you find the perfect book to close out your summer and capture that summer-reading-magic at least one last time. The best beach reads never sacrifice emotional…
Searching for truth, whether at personal level or on a larger scale, has been the subject of many different narratives. I started writing my novel South in 2018 when I was thinking about truth, its relationship to history, and the possibility of accessing reality amid the excess of misinformation and the erasure of historical facts. The narrator of South is a freelance journalist who is hired for a mission to investigate the labor strikes on an offshore oil rig. Soon after his arrival on the rig, he is pulled into a labyrinth of conspiracies and lies that he is not…
Teaching My Son to Swim While I Drown Megan Kamalei Kakimoto Share article Madwomen by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto My son, Toby, demands many stories, but it’s the story of the Madwoman he likes best. Because he is part Hawaiian and often forgets, I have made her the Madwoman in the Sea—some foolish attempt to right him with his ‘āina. I tuck my son into the swaddle of his trundle bed, cup the tender tissue of his cheek, which glows the shade of spoiled milk. Legend claims Her as its own manic invention—brilliant, beautiful, disillusioned, a little lonely. They say She…
Jenn Shapland has thin skin, literally. Thin Skin uses her medical diagnosis as a prism to examine the thinning of boundaries between our bodies and the world: “to be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.” Mesmerizing and carefully, dutifully written, these essays delve into the weight of capitalism, the negotiation of identity through consumerism, and the misguided and harmful weapon of white womanhood reaching back to US colonization. “This book begins in the free fall of reality,” Shapland writes early on about humanity’s exposure to radioactive…
For me, the term “mad scientist” brings to mind images of bubbling beakers filled with neon liquids; elongated, menacing silhouettes; and of course (Pinky and) the Brain. There is a long history of stories from Frankenstein and The Island of Dr. Moreau all the way to Rick and Morty where brilliance tips over into madness and we watch wide-eyed to see the damage. Science-fiction is based in reality and there is something about the possibility of real miracles or maledictions that draws us in. Frankenstein’s monster may have seemed like more of a thought experiment at the time, but is…
It was the kind of summer night we’d been craving all week. Easy conversation, endless beers, suburban life drifting on welcome breezes— “Marco?” “Polo!” screamed from a backyard pool, raucous laughter as someone’s bullshit was called out. Six of us sat in a hot tub: my boyfriend, his sister and brother-in-law, and their middle-aged neighbors. I was 23. My boyfriend and I had been cheating on one another since high school. The others were stable, in their thirties. We partied as the kids slept inside. My boyfriend and I were tourists in this land of adulthood. And like a tourist,…
Tax Incentives for the Brokenhearted Account Because I was the one to end it, and so soon, I offered to reimburse her what I owed. She had covered most of the wedding, the move, our rent. I was living on the grace of a friend, sleeping in his sunroom on Folsom. Every morning I opened my account to see how little I had left. It wasn’t looking good until she wrote to say we could forget it if I would let her claim me on her taxes. I guessed there was a rebate for this kind of thing. I could…
Why is it that, in an era of convenience and online shopping, we still go out of our way to buy our croissants and cupcakes at the mom-and-pop bakery rather than the chain supermarkets? While the custom of buying bread from the baker, meat from the butcher, and cheese from the cheesemonger is an ingrained culture in France, even ultra-pragmatic Americans fall easily for the lure of a little bakery with a pink-striped awning and a window full of toothsome treats. When I decided to write a novel about Paris, I knew instantly that it had to be set in…