Ninety percent of the time, when I meet men in public, it starts with a conversation about my tattoos.
tattoos
science
I’m not PhD material. Not because I’m not smart enough, but because I am simply unwilling to toil away for five years to eventually maybe get a job that I probably won’t enjoy a whole heck of a lot.
chemicals
“Chemical free” is a term made up by some marketing person to scare you.
salt
I dip popcorn in soy sauce. My favorite foods are olives, pickles and cured meats. Without sodium chloride, I would start killing everyone.
I Tried To Go Without Salt For A Week And You Can Have My Salt When You Pry It From My Bloated Hands
children
Having a week where I don’t have to put anyone to bed, or be the disciplinarian, or wait until after 9:00 p.m. to watch my recorded HBO shows is THE BEST.
oversharing
I love hearing all about people's sexual experiences, even though studies claim promiscuous women eschew our own kind. Screw those studies.
happiness
Probably the number one misconception I had before becoming a parent was that it was going to be completely horrible.
brains
This has nothing to do with synthesizers or athleticism.
language
While it’s cool to know that being bilingual has scads of smarty-pants benefits, the study overlooks many other things that are awesome about knowing more than one language. But don’t worry -- I’m here to help with five more!
science
If science is objective and beauty is subjective, there is already a problem with this equation.
children
There are theories that early-onset puberty is caused by chemicals in food, or light from TVs and computers. I don't know why it's happening, and I don't know what we can do about it.
bad decisions
This is the sort of hard-hitting first-person journalism that Lena Dunham was parodying on "Girls," right?
clothing
Science says "yes."
science
Guess what! Your friends' attitudes about their bodies influence your own attitude about your body!
Marianne in
Healthy,
science,
things we already knew,
social influence,
circle of friends,
being a good friend,
peer pressure
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30am | 113 comments
books
Every time I start a new book, I feel a little twinge of sadness for all the other ones I didn't get to start.
careers
I decided to talk to some disabled researchers, academics, and more to find out more about the specific problems disabled STEMers face -- and how to fix them.
body image
According to a new study out of Finland, high-stress jobs make women less attractive to dudes. Time to quit your job, everyone!
plus sizes
In other words, I am personally helping reduce our cultural obsession with thinness by putting pictures of my fat self up on xoJane all the time. YAY ME.
daily mail
A guy friend of mine once compared me to Myrtle from "The Great Gatsby" -- homely, but endearing. Better than the alternative, I guess.
kids
Are there times when being a parent totally sucks? I’m sure there are. But there are also times when it totally sucks to be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a partner, or anything else.
kiera wilmot
I set the science lab on fire when I was in 8th grade. Not on purpose.
a-holes
We NEED people who are pretentious about food, because we also have lazy fat idiots like me who routinely buy six packs of TAB just for their otter-choking potential.
