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Take a closer look at what’s inside typical beauty products — the facts get pretty ugly. From harsh chemicals that pose health risks to the prevalence of petroleum-derived ingredients, you might be surprised to learn that what’s inside all those bottles and tubes is ruining the planet.
11 beauty products ruining the environment
“A wonderful little story about five-year-old Albert Einstein, who was very slow to speak and whose parents feared he was none too bright, shows us how neophilia works and what it’s for. One day, when he was sick in bed, the boy was given the compass to fiddle with to keep him occupied. The new plaything made him wonder about magnetic fields, which got him interested in physics, and, well, you know the rest. Few of us are Einsteins, but all of us have the same capacity to be curious about something new that sparks the learning and sustained interest that lead to achievements great and small.”
—New – a cultural history and future of neophilia, our compulsive need for novelty and change. (via curiositycounts)
Anthony Volodkin is fascinated: Getting a Motorola SBG6580 into "Bridge" mode on TimeWarner Wideband →
fascinated.fm
still very useful. this is the only helpful post i’ve found on the matter… cheers!
So, say, you have a Linksys E2000 (or whatever model, really) wireless router. You’ve got your port forwarding, your DHCP address table and all this stuff setup just the way you like it. Then you got the fancy TimeWarner Wideband service and the tech came and brought the black Motorola SBG6580…
