Currently obsessed with: Wide Awake by Katy Perry. <3
Major haul at sephora today. Stocking up on cosmetics for my 6 week trip to Asia! Gah! 😖 Vacations are already expensive enough, why does packing have to be so expensive, too???😭 (Taken with instagram)
Kickass Kid of the Day: A Maryland-based scientist has developed an incredibly accurate mechanism for detecting pancreatic cancer, which is faster than current methods, as well as 100 times more sensitive and 28 times cheaper. Oh, and the scientist is 15 years old.
For his discovery, high school freshman Jack Andraka just won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which comes with a $75,000 prize.
Andraka’s method uses single-walled carbon nanotubes — which he calls “the superheroes of material science” — to detect a pancreatic cancer marker in urine and blood samples. In a blind test, it had a 100% success rate.
“I did not expect for it to be this good,” he said, “I was blown away by how sensitive it was.”
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Amazing!
Haha people might think we live on a farm… No. We just love animals! Ducklings are so cuteee (Taken with instagram)
My best friend Alaina! It’s adventure time all the time with her <3 (Taken with instagram)
Burger King Announcement of the Day: Burger King said today that it will begin buying eggs only from farms that don’t cage their hens — and similarly, pork only from producers that don’t use gestation stalls to confine sows — with a plan to complete the transition by 2017. The decision is the first of its kind by a global fast food industry giant, and comes amid recent undercover investigations by animal rights activists and concessions from major companies.
“So many tens of thousands of animals will now be in better living conditions,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States. “Numerically this is significant because Burger King is such a big purchaser of these products.”
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Go Burger King! Strange because McDonald’s have always been my favorite fast food… But I guess that’s going to change! :)
Mochi, my little teddy bear! Look how cute she was when she was just a baby <3 (Taken with instagram)