Words of Wisdom — August 25, 2014

Beyoncé on Self-Confidence

“When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.”

-Beyoncé Knowles

Photo credit: Noemi Nuñez

Starts With A Bang

Is NASA wrong about this star’s “supernova” fate?

This beautiful JWST image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 has been called a “prelude to a supernova” by NASA. That might be entirely wrong.

two hands reaching towards each other in the dark.

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Study linking sugar substitute “erythritol” to heart attack and stroke is flawed

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a painting of a woman and a man with the words is it liberation?.

Has the sexual revolution backfired?

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