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Few skin conditions torpedo self-esteem the wayacnedoes. Treating acne is maddening. What The Heck Are Acne Scars, Anyway? Depending on the amount of collagen the damaged cells produce, she explained, patients are left with eitheratrophicorhypertrophicscars. Any dimpled, dented texture you notice after a breakout heals is because of atrophic scarring. When acne-damaged skin cells overproduce collagen, they leave hypertrophic scars, which are raised and often shiny. However, whether or not you get hypertrophic scars mostly comes down to genetics....

What Im about to say may upset you, and if thats the case, I sincerely apologize. I think beef is just okay. Welcome to Burger Week! Grilling season is in full swing, and were flipping out over burgers. To quote Matty Matheson, Burnt beef tastes like shit!) As a person who just wants to see vegetables succeed, this hurts me on the inside. No matter what you do to plants, theyll never be beefand thats fine!...

After all, how can anybody trust a bridge that has no support underneath it? Demonstration of the Cantilever Principle of the Forth Bridge, circa 1887. Fowler and Baker represent the cantilevers, while Watanabe represents the load on the suspended central span. The bricks on either end represents the anchor for the cantilever beams. The bridge whose design they are demonstrating is the Forth Bridge built between 1882 and 1890 in Scotland....

Futurist Amy Webb has led theFuture Today Institutesince today…was the future. That sounds less profound than we hoped, but Webbs workisprofound. Ive been working full-time as a quantitative futurist ever since. I now teach foresight at NYUs Stern School of Business, and my students are incredibly bright and creative. I also writeIm finishing my third book now. Its a manifesto about how the Big Nine tech titans are shaping the future of AI....

The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin. Some of the taller ones are as high as 40 meters. Deep beneath Searles Lake, calcium-rich groundwater and alkaline lake water combined to grow tufa formations. The northern group is the youngest at 11,000 to 25,000 years old. The tallest pinnacles are located in the small middle group containing about 100 spires. Photo credit:Dave Reichert/Flickr...

Wood decays and any earthen feature has since been eroded by centuries of ploughing. They are known as cropmarks. Cropmarks at Grezac, France. Crops growing above long-gone ditches will grow taller, thicker and greener on account of more nourishment. How crop marks form? An ancient settlement with fortification or drainage ditch around it. Graphics by: RCAHMW Over the centuries the settlement disappeared and farming took place. Graphics by: RCAHMW The ditches got filled in and the soil became deeper in those areas....

I figured everything was more or less cool. Wisdom tooth, or third molar, extraction is a common procedure. Its practically a rite of passage for folks in their late teens or early 20s. Why, Ive always thought, would I voluntarily have a perfectly healthy part of my skeletal system removed? After all, my theory that they never cause problems had just been disproven. Common as it is, the procedure isnt entirely without controversyand not just from conspiracy theorists like me....

But the Domes of Fabedougou have an entirely different origin. But not the Domes of Fabedougou. Despite being that old, the sandstones have been barely metamorphosed and are surprisingly young looking. As theEarth Storynotes, these Domes are actually ancient sand dunes. Photo credit: Sviluppo/Shutterstock This whole area was once under abig oceanpacked with free-flowing sediments. Over time, the sediments settled down and compacted to form sedimentary rocks of different thickness.

Men of the West Yorkshire Regiment and 10th Gurkha Rifles advance along the Imphal-Kohima road behind Lee-Grant tanks. Kohima is situated on a ridge that runs roughly north and south. From Imphal, the road proceeded further south and into Burma. This was the route the Japanese intended to take to invade India from Burma. If successful Operation U-Go could have opened the whole of India for the Axis to takeover....

Your floor is dirty. Your trashcan is overflowing. you oughta change a light bulb and do the laundry. Youre always busy, and bullshit household errands fall through the cracks. Heres an idea: get drunk. But those lowered inhibitions can also help you get tedious or unpleasant jobs done. You just have to prepare. The trick is to do as much prep as you’re able to while youre sober. Do all the procrastination stuff, like buying supplies and getting out the mop andanything butthe actual chore....

She talks to us about balancing her career and being a queer single mom of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy. Heres how she parents. Did life happen mostly as planned or were there surprises? Almost nothing in my life has gone as planned, and I wouldnt have it any other way! The kiddo was planned, but the divorce shortly after was not. Take us through your morning routine. What are your best tricks for getting out the door?...

I had a perfect wedding, and my only regret is getting really tightly tailored suit pants. So get yourself some slacks with room to grow, and learn these wedding lessons the easy way. Of course they were going to come, its just no one uses mail anymore. Instead, Shirleysparrow says, you should use a wedding site, which saves money and time. (If you do paper invitesmy wife sent out a zineyou can still ask for RSVPs over email....

At its peak, Morwellham was the richest copper port in Queen Victoria’s Empire. So important was the port for the British crown that the queen herself visited it in 1856. Then a burgeoning mining industry in the early medieval period found the quay useful. Initially the quay transported tin ore, followed by silver and lead in the 13th century. Later, copper deposits were discovered near Morwhellam itself and a copper mine opened....