Новости за 09.11.2015

Taylor Adam Swift is a 30-year-old photographer living in Seattle. His art isn’t bad, but that’s not why he’s been blowing up all over the internet. Just like Attorney Justin Bieber, Swift is getting more and more attention because he shares a name with every teen’s favorite Grammy-winning pop star.

And here we thought we were getting away with something. According to beauty industry analysts, ingredients in your makeup often only account for around 15% of the cost. The rest is packaging, marketing, and the luxury of working with sales associates and then tricking them into refunding a half-used compact of NARS Orgasm blush because you are just so over it, not because there was anything defective about the product itself. Marc Bain at Quartz.com reports:

In October, Anna Stubblefield, 45, a Rutgers University ethics professor, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault against her severely disabled adult student. She was set to be sentenced on Monday, but her defense team has filed a motion to have her conviction overturned or convene a new trial. The now-divorced mother of two is facing a 40-year sentence, the same amount of hard time that would be issued to someone who perpetrated a gang rape. Throughout her trial, Stubblefield claimed that... Читать дальше...

Those of us with the dexterity of an inebriated giraffe are prone to rejoice at innovations that make at-home manicures less of a catastrophe. The Nailbot, a new machine from San Francisco-based company Preemadonna, is one such invention — it enables you to apply nail art simply by using your smart phone. But CEO and Co-founder Pree Walia hopes that the Nailbot will achieve a loftier goal: introducing girls to technology.

Today in Extremely Bizarre Turn Of Events: 47-year-old Judy Brown of Beverly, Massachusetts recently gave birth to a healthy, eight pound baby girl — a baby girl she was not expecting until one hour prior to her delivery.

On October 28, 2015, 13-year-old Jessica Pelligrini began choking on an apple during lunch. The emergency could have turned fatal had fellow classmate Brandon Williams, also 13, not rushed to her side and successfully performed the Heimlich Maneuver. Marveling at Brandons’s heroism, his father Anthony Williams asked where he had learned to perform the life-saving technique. The answer: SpongeBob SquarePants.

A cheerleader in Texas was removed from her team for failing to straighten her naturally curly locks. The team’s leaders said her hair was fine for practice, but it would need to be straightened and styled in a high ponytail for competitions. “It was bad because half of it was curl and half of it wasn’t,” said 11-year-old Makayla Fallaw.

There’s a famous story about 50 Cent’s life before he came a successful rapper in which he survives getting shot nine times at close range. What people may not know is one of those bullets remains in his body, and specifically inside of his tongue. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, says the bullet is “great for oral.” Excuse me, Curtis?

Some Starbucks’ customers are outraged over the coffee chain’s new holiday cups, just because they lack a Christmas-themed design. In the past, the company released cups depicting images of snowflakes, reindeer, white doves and ornaments. This year, the cups are plain red — and people are really pissed.

This year has seen more actresses speaking out against the pay disparity between women and men in Hollywood. There was Patricia Arquette’s flawed, yet insightful speech at the Oscars and Jennifer Lawrence’s thoughtful essay on the subject, with many other women sharing their experiences in between. Now, Sharon Stone is opening up about the issue.

An Arizona mother named Lola “Tammy” Griffith, whose child was a patient at a Phoenix-area children’s hospital, took his life before she took her own. Nurses found Griffith and 5-year-old Helious, dead inside the child’s hospital room during a 2 a.m. bed check. While police have not disclosed how the boy passed away, Griffith had died from a fatal gunshot wound.