Author: Tom Patriot

Do Pore Strips Really Work? Here’s What Dermatologists Say

Tom Patriot

Even if you’ve never used a nose strip before, chances are you’re familiar with them. The iconic Bioré commercials or Mia Thermopolis (aka Anne Hathaway) in The Princess Diaries wearing one in all her awkward teenage glory are just two examples of where you would have seen the popular blackhead treatment in action. Much like sheet masks and pimple stickers, pore strips — often known simply as “nose strips,” due to the facial feature’s overwhelming popularity in this skin-care genre — are much like sheet masks and pimple stickers in that they’re bizarrely satisfying to use.…

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Kate Moss and Her Daughter Lila Look So Alike As They Attend Marc Jacobs’s Wedding Together

Tom Patriot

Marc Jacobs got married this weekend to his longtime partner Char Defrancesco, in a New York wedding. The chic event was attended by an array of models and celebs that the fashion designer has worked with throughout his dextrous career. So it makes sense that Kate Moss was in attendance at the event, along with her daughter, 16-year-old Lila. While Kate wore a burgundy vintage dress by Janice Wainwright, Lila wore a metallic strapless dress with chunky black heels. The mother and daughter duo looked adorable as they left the wedding together. Plus the…

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Dopamine conducts prefrontal cortex ensembles

Tom Patriot

Anyone who has savored a bite of chocolate or glanced at each new blinking notification on their smart phone is familiar with dopamine. But that is not all dopamine does. This chemical neurotransmitter also plays a fundamental role in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which controls higher functions such as paying attention, staying motivated, and making decisions. Now, research in rodents reveals for the first time how dopamine changes the function of the prefrontal cortex. In a study published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers found that dopamine has little…

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Geographers use big data to predict how slope affects human travel rates

Tom Patriot

Have you ever been running on a sidewalk making pretty good time, then hit a hill and slowed way down? If so, you’ve experienced how slope affects travel rates. For most of us, understanding how slope steepness impacts our speed is a matter of fitness. For others, such as wildland firefighters retreating from the fire line to a safety zone, predicting how long it takes to move across terrain can be a matter of life and death. Fire crews, city planners and search and rescue teams are just some of…

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