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At 59, I Went Viral On TikTok. I Was Afraid Of The Comments — But I Never Expected This.
I squeeze my body in between the dilapidated structure that collects rainwater off the roof and a 50-gallon barrel of yesterday’s laundry water. “Can you aim the camera to avoid this clutter,” I ask Emily, the young woman I’ve hired to film me, “and just get me and the laundry water in frame?” Also Read: I’ve Now Officially Outlived My Mother. That’s Why I Won't Fight Aging. I am nervous — the most insecure I’ve felt since I started posting on TikTok three weeks ago.
At 59, I Went Viral On TikTok. I Was Afraid Of The Comments — But I Never Expected This.
Laura Faye Tenenbaum Tue, 11 August 2026 at 3:30 pm UTC 9 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author discusses composting in a strapless gown for a TikTok video. I squeeze my body in between the dilapidated structure that collects rainwater off the roof and a 50-gallon barrel of yesterday's laundry water.
I Was A Science Professor Who Worked At NASA. I Feared My Secret Second Life Would Unravel It All.
Every Saturday night, I slipped into a sequined bra and booty shorts to hang suspended from a trapeze above the dance floor of a packed-out, 20,000 square ft., iconic nightclub on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles. Then, every Monday, I went to work and hid my thrilling side hustle from the college students I taught. I wanted them to get excited about science without transferring their passions onto me. Also Read: Oprah Wanted To Talk About Adult Kids Cutting Off Their Parents.
I Used to Work at NASA. I Have Some Insights About Sex in Space.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. “We hear almost everything,” my friend and NASA colleague, a program scientist for the International Space Station, told me over lunch one day. She was explaining various Mission Control safety measures for monitoring astronauts’ health, psychological state, and overall comfort.
I Used to Work at NASA. I Have Some Insights About Sex in Space.
Relationships Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. “We hear almost everything,” my friend and NASA colleague, a program scientist for the International Space Station, told me over lunch one day. She was explaining various Mission Control safety measures for monitoring astronauts’ health, psychological state, and overall comfort.
I am 59 years old and have become a hot topic on TikTok. I was dreading the comments, but I didn't expect this. Pipa News
I am 59 years old and have become a hot topic on TikTok. I was dreading the comments, but I didn’t expect this. I wedge myself between a dilapidated structure that collects rainwater from the roof and a 50-gallon barrel containing yesterday’s washing water. “Could you point the camera at me to avoid this clutter? I ask Emily, the young woman I hired, so I can have just me and the washing water in the frame.” I am nervous.
At 59, I Went Viral On TikTok. I Was Afraid Of The Comments - But I Never Expected This.
The author discusses composting in a strapless gown for a TikTok video. I squeeze my body in between the dilapidated structure that collects rainwater off the roof and a 50-gallon barrel of yesterday’s laundry water. “Can you aim the camera to avoid this clutter,” I ask Emily, the young woman I’ve hired to film me, “and just get me and the laundry water in frame?” I am nervous — the most insecure I’ve felt since I started posting on TikTok three weeks ago.
At 59, I Went Viral On TikTok. I Was Afraid Of The Comments - But I Never Expected This.
The author discusses composting in a strapless gown for a TikTok video. I squeeze my body in between the dilapidated structure that collects rainwater off the roof and a 50-gallon barrel of yesterday’s laundry water. “Can you aim the camera to avoid this clutter,” I ask Emily, the young woman I’ve hired to film me, “and just get me and the laundry water in frame?” I am nervous — the most insecure I’ve felt since I started posting on TikTok three weeks ago.
At 59, I Went Viral On TikTok. I Was Afraid Of The Comments - But I Never Expected This.
The author discusses composting in a strapless gown for a TikTok video. The author discusses composting in a strapless gown for a TikTok video. I squeeze my body in between the dilapidated structure that collects rainwater off the roof and a 50-gallon barrel of yesterday’s laundry water.
At 59, I Went Viral On TikTok. I Was Afraid Of The Comments - But I Never Expected This.
The author discusses composting in a strapless gown for a TikTok video. I squeeze my body in between the dilapidated structure that collects rainwater off the roof and a 50-gallon barrel of yesterday’s laundry water. “Can you aim the camera to avoid this clutter,” I ask Emily, the young woman I’ve hired to film me, “and just get me and the laundry water in frame?” I am nervous — the most insecure I’ve felt since I started posting on TikTok three weeks ago.
At 59, I Went Viral On TikTok. I Was Afraid Of The Comments — But I Never Expected This. | Flipboard
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NASA's Climate Communications Might Not Recover From The Damage Of Trump's Systemic Suppression
© David Silverman—Getty Images A piece of the Perito Moreno glacier, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, breaks off and crashes into Lake Argentina in the Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz province, Argentina on April 5, 2019. In 2019, the ice fields were the largest expanse of ice in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica, but according to NASA reporting they were melting away at some of the highest rates on the planet as a result of global warming.
The Sun is Always Shining on Joan Feynman
“I knew the names of the planets in order before I went to kindergarten," Joan Feynman, the younger sister of the famous physicist, told me. "My father was delighted by science. My brother, of course, was Richard Feynman—gifted as hell. When I was about three or four, he taught me to add numbers. I’d add them and if I got them right, he’d give me a reward. The reward was allowing me to pull his hair.
Talking with global experts: How will Covid-19 change the way cities work?
Since Covid-19 became a global health crisis, cities and citizens from all over the world have witnessed and experienced the urban dimension of the pandemic. Without a doubt, both the impact of the spread of the virus on urban life and the response to the crisis by cities and governments represent a before and after in terms of how urban areas function, are managed and will be planned.
Lixo plástico vira preocupação durante quarentena
Maior demanda de sacolas plásticas durante a quarentena pode implicar em danos ao meio ambiente, já que o material demora para se biodegradar Você provavelmente já ouviu, leu ou notou que, desde a quarentena causada pela Covid-19, o ar e a água em todo o planeta ficaram mais limpos. Sim, a natureza está se recuperando.
The Amount Of Plastic Waste Is Surging Because Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
At the beginning of the second week of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with ... [+] government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lies in the grass alongside a path used by passing Londoners in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
Three Beautiful Ways To Celebrate Earth Day From Home
Stay-at-home environmental mural for PangeaSeed Foundation's Earth Day 2020 festival created by ... [+] artist Kelly Spencer Credit: Kelly Spencer HOME Earth Day, the annual event supporting environmental protection, is April 22. And this year, 2020, is Earth Day’s 50th anniversary. Under normal circumstances, people around the world would be honoring the Earth with Earth Day celebrations and Earth Day festivals. But instead, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced everyone to stay home.
The United States Is 2.4°F Warmer Than It Was On The First Earth Day 50 Years Ago
United States temperature trend since the first Earth Day Credit: Climate Central April 22, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Back in 1970, there was no EPA, no Clean Air Act and no Clean Water Act. There were no legal or regulatory mechanisms to protect our environment. Factories were allowed to spew black clouds of toxic smoke into the air or dump tons of toxic waste into nearby streams.
March 2020 Was Warm, And This Year, January And February Were Too
Mean Temperature Percentiles for Jan-March 2020 in the United States Credit: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Climate change isn’t slowing down. In March 2020, the average temperature in the contiguous United States was 4.6°F above the 20th-century average. And this news comes after NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information ranked February 2020 as the second-hottest February in the 141-year global climate record, following the path set by the preceding two months.
MEL Academy Offers Three Months Of Free Online Science Webinars For Kids At Home
Home science education for kids Credit: MEL Science Science experiments are a great way to inspire curiosity, engage kids in science and spend quality time with loved ones at home. So MEL Academy, an online science-teaching tool with the goal of making science education easy, interesting, and effective, is helping families cope with current stay at home orders by making all their webinars and VR lessons free for the next three months.
Sorry, Climate Change Hasn’t Gone Away Just Because Of COVID-19
a) NO2 map over California from TROPOMI during 2-6 March 2020 pre-shutdown, b) 9-13 March during ... [+] soft shutdown, c) 16-20 March when “shelter in place” orders were announced, d) 23-27 March full period of “shelter in place” orders. Credit: Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) You might have noticed that the air is a little bit cleaner since the COVID-19 shutdown.
Greenland And Antarctica Are Melting Six Times Faster Than In The 1990s
An Iceberg floats in Disko Bay, Greenland Credit: Ian Joughin Throughout the 1990s, Greenland and Antarctica together lost 81 billion tons of ice per year. But this month, a comprehensive assessment of the changing ice sheets published in the journal Nature, found that in the 2010s, the rate of ice loss has risen by a factor six. This means that the two ice sheets are now losing 475 billion tons of ice per year.
A Profile Of The Remarkable Sylvia Earle For Women’s History Month
Sylvia Earle Diving at Cabo Pulmo Credit: Kip Evans Sadly, Women’s History Month has taken a back seat to the turmoil surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. But there’s still time to acknowledge and celebrate a remarkable woman or two. I met the groundbreaking marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle when I was doing fieldwork at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in graduate school.
Here’s Another Pandemic Homeschooling Science Demo
Heat capacity water balloon demo Credit: Laura Faye Tenenbaum Last week, I shared a science demo for you to try with your kids at home. This week, you’re still at home for more self-isolation and more homeschooling, so here’s one more fun, interesting and easy-to-do science demo. This demo shows that water has an unusual property, the ability to absorb and store heat. Materials you’ll need: Water Some balloons A lighter or candle Procedure: Fill a few balloons with water and a few with air.
Self-Isolating At Home? Use Silicone Instead Of Plastic To Store Your Food
Preserve your proteins, fruits and veggies by freezing them is in silicone storage bags Credit: Stasher COVID-19 forced you to work from home, self-isolate and shelter in place. You’ve prepared as much as possible and stocked up on food supplies. Now, to save and extend the life of those proteins, fruits and veggies, you can freeze them. Freezing will save money and reduce food waste. Nearly all vegetables, except lettuce and cucumbers, can be frozen.
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This Company Wants To Eliminate Single Use Plastics Kat Nouri already had a successful business that she had been running for over a decade. But she had a desire to do more -- to use her business as a vehicle to stop plastic pollution.
Here’s A Cool Science Demo To Try While You’re Home With Your Kids Waiting Out The Pandemic
Seawater density science demonstration with saltwater, egg and food color. Credit: Laura Faye Tenenbaum My Oceanography students always loved a good science demo. This one is easy to do, inexpensive, and it’s also interesting. Plus you and your family get to learn about the density of seawater.
We Need To Be Celebrating Science
A young female teacher helps a boy in her class to conduct a chemistry experiment. Getty The most common thing people would tell me when they found out I worked at NASA was “I used to love science when I was a kid.” They used to love science.
Are cities thinking about gender enough? | Catherine D'Ignazio
Gender Equality, Public Policies & Services, Equality & Social Justice Cities are diverse, rich, multilayered ecosystems. They are home to different kind of individuals who use public space and infrastructure in different ways. But, from a gender perspective, are cities really and effectively supporting those different patterns of use between men, women, and non-binary people?
The Current Global Warming Trend Is Directly Related To Human Emissions Of Greenhouse Gases
2020 National Emissions Sources by Sector Credit: Climate Central The past five years were the five hottest years since record keeping began. And the nineteen hottest years have occurred in the past 20 years. This current global warming trend is directly related to human emissions of greenhouse gases. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have reached 414 ppm, which is higher than at any time in the past 800,000 years. Currently humans emit 36.6 gigatons of CO2 a year.
Climate Change Is Increasing Spring Temperatures
Increased Spring Warming in the Continental U.S. since 1970 Credit: Climate Central Climate change increases temperatures all year long, but in some areas the spring season is warming faster. Out of 242 cities analyzed in the United States, 197 of them saw at least one degree Fahrenheit of spring warming over the past fifty years. But the Southwest saw the greatest number of above normal temperature spring days. Temperatures in Reno, Nev.
Last Week Antarctica Reached The Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded And Now The Glaciers Are Melting
Melting on the ice cap of Eagle Island as seen by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. Credit: NASA From February 5 through February 13, temperatures in Antarctica were about the same as in Los Angeles. Esperanza Base on the Antarctic Peninsula reached 65 degrees, the hottest ever recorded. But this hasn’t been the only heatwave in Antarctica this summer. There were major warming events in both November 2019 and January 2020.
The Mississippi River Delta Is The Fastest Shrinking Delta In The World. NASA Wants To Know Why
The Mississippi River carries sediment into the Gulf of Mexico. This true-color image, acquired from ... [+] the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite shows the murky brown water of the Mississippi mixing with the dark blue water of the Gulf. Credit: Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the MODIS science team.
Sheila Morovati, Founder Of The Non-Profit Habits Of Waste, Commends Celebrities Who Endorse Veganism
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 09: Joaquin Phoenix accepts the Actor In A Leading Role award for ... [+] 'Joker' onstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Getty Images This award season, in addition to a string of wins, actor Joaquin Phoenix was able to convince the Golden Globes, the Critic’s Choice Awards, the SAG awards, and the Oscars to switch to an all-vegan menu.
Ocean Conservancy Joins The Fight Against Plastic Waste With A Pledge To Quit The Cutlery Campaign
Single-use plastic objects arranged resemble a wave breaking in a sea of plastic bags. Cape Town, ... [+] South Africa. Feb 2019. Getty People are fed up with plastic. They’re refusing plastic straws, bringing their own grocery bags and carrying reusable water bottles. An now Ocean Conservancy is joining the growing chorus against plastic waste by asking people to Pledge to Quit the Cutlery. Single use plastic forks, knives and spoons do not get recycled even when you put them in the recycling bin.
There Are Worms In Space
C. elegans is a tiny, transparent nematode worm that responds to space conditions in ways similar to ... [+] human responses. Credit: ESA Astronauts aren’t the only ones living on the International Space Station. There are lab rats in space, plants in space, and yes, there are worms in space too.
Who Needs A Groundhog When Climate Change Practically Guarantees An Early Spring
Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) juvenile in alpine pasture in summer, Hohe Tauern National Park, ... [+] Carinthia, Austria. (Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images February 2 is the day where a groundhog is supposed to tell us if spring will come early or if we’ll have six more weeks of winter. But with climate change, we already know that across the U.S., spring is getting warmer and coming an average of three days earlier too.
Digging In The Dirt Really Does Make People Happier
Women planting in the vegetable garden at Hands on Miami Day. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal ... [+] Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images I spent all morning gardening. A friend and I moved soil away from the trunk of a grapefruit tree, transplanted geraniums, weeded and deep watered. While it always feels good to check off boxes on the to do list, gardening has more to offer than most other chores.
The Spitzer Space Telescope Is About To Bite The Dust
The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this NASA Spitzer ... [+] Space Telescope image. Credit: NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Spitzer, a space telescope designed to look at interstellar dust is now about to bite the same dust it once studied.
One Human Uses The Same Amount Of Water As About 72 Rats
NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 34 commander, watches a water bubble float freely between him ... [+] and the camera, showing his image refracted, in the Unity node of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA I worked at NASA for a decade so people come to me to talk about life in space. They usually imagine floating in microgravity or space walking in space suits (aka Extravehicular Mobility Units) or gazing wistfully out of the Cupola window into the vastness of the universe.
The World’s Ocean Just Set The Record For Warmest Temperatures In Human History
Global Heat Content (0-2000 meters) layer Credit: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 2019 was a record year for global warming. This week, NASA and NOAA announced that global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern record keeping began. This means that the last five years have been the hottest five years on record, the ten hottest years have all occurred since 2005, and this past decade was the hottest decade every recorded.
Almond Trees Aren’t Killing Bees; Pesticides And Corporate Greed Are
Biplane cropduster applying fungicide to almond trees near Brooks, California. Moment Editorial/Getty Images It seems like almost everyone I know started feeling guilty over almond milk since a rash of headlines blaming almonds, and by association, everyone who eats almonds, for killing billions of honeybees. But headlines claiming that almonds kill bees are misleading. Almond trees aren’t responsible for killing the bees; pesticides and large-scale industrial agriculture methods are killing them.
北極の氷の融解スピードが1990年代の10倍近くに、最新調査で
北極圏に位置する世界最大の島、グリーンランドの表面の約80％を占める氷の塊が「グリーンランド氷床」だ。1990年代に科学者らがこの氷の塊を観察した結果、年間250億トンの氷が融解していることを突き止めた。 そして今、世界50カ国の89人の科学者らが参加した共同リサーチの結果、氷の融解スピードが前回の調査をはるかに上回る規模に達していることが明らかになった。調査チームは、26の衛星画像のデータベースを用い、1992年から2018年までのグリーンランドの氷の状況の変遷を追った。 先日、科学誌「ネイチャー」で発表された論文で、この期間に失われたグリーンランドの氷の重量は3.8兆トンに及ぶとされた。これは年間に溶け出す氷の量が、以前の250億トンから2340億トンに増加したことを示している。氷が溶けるスピードはかつての9倍以上にも高まっているのだ。 背景には、グリーンランド氷床の表面を覆う大気の気温が上昇したことがあげられる。グリーンランドの周囲の海水温も以前より上昇し、氷山は速い速度で海に溶け出している。...
Greenland’s Ice Melt Rate Has Now Accelerated To A Whopping 234 Billion Tons Of Ice Lost Per Year
A river of ice flows from the Greenland Ice Sheet down a fjord and out to sea Credit: Laura Faye Tenenbaum When scientists in the 1990s measured the amount of ice melting off the Greenland Ice Sheet, they observed it losing 25 billion tons of ice per year. Now a consortium of 89 polar scientists from 50 scientific institutions assessed the current rate of ice loss by combining 26 satellite datasets from 1992 through 2018 to track global warming's effect on Greenland.
An Unhappy New Year
NOAA-NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured imagery of the fires and the resultant billowing smoke ... [+] cascading off the edge of Australia on Jan. 01, 2020 Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Australia is on fire and that collective shared moment of New Years Day optimism, that sense of hope that comes along with thinking about a fresh new start, seems to have vanished. How can we be sure this year will be happy? How do we know it won’t be even worse?
We must fight the climate crisis with courage. We have no other choice
Thousands of students from across Philadelphia's school districts left their classes and gathered ... [+] around City Hall before taking to the streets of downtown to protest climate inaction and demand real systemic change to deal with climate change and its effects in Philadelphia, PA on September 20, 2019.
My Favorite Gift This Year Was Worm Poop
Earthworms wriggle across the hands of Forestry Commission volunteers at a dig for worms at ... [+] Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, in Gloucestershire, during a survey to mark the launch of a nationwide programme taking place during the Forestry Commission centenary year to find out more about forest wildlife. The public are being encouraged to record forest wildlife through the seasons using a mobile phone app.
‘I Learned Never To Throw My Cigarette Butts On The Ground Ever Again.’
Volunteers collect cigarette butts from beach Credit: Ismail Ferdous “What was the most impactful thing you learned in Oceanography Lecture this semester?” I ask my students via an extra credit question on the final exam at the end of every semester. I want to know what students will remember, what they’ll take with them after class is over.
Santa’s Fixit Volunteers Build Community And Divert Materials From The Landfill At The Same Time
Volunteers gather at the Burbank Recycle Center's Fixit Clinic to repair items Credit: Laura Faye Tenenbaum There’s a TV set at one station, a blender in pieces at another and a pair of pajamas turned inside out getting a new hem. A microwave oven sits sideways on a table. Volunteer Santa’s helpers wearing elf hats deliver extension chords to specialists who lean over rows of tool-covered tables. No, this isn’t the inside of Santa’s workshop at the North Pole.
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