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STEM was coined by Dr. Judith Ramaley in the early 21st Century. She advocated that learning is best accomplished while solving real world problems or pursuing innovation. Many educators now want to put the A (Arts) in STEM to merge knowing and doing.
Teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, how do you think STEM can converge with the Arts to increase creativity and innovation, both 21st Century Skill?
Your questions relates to an email I just received from a middle school science teachers. In Arizona (and in 13 other states) Qwest gives out grant funding to teachers who have an innovative project that integrates technology. Well, in AZ the Qwest grant proposal had to focus on STEM. I had the privilege of reviewing these grant proposals and there were some that integrating the Arts into their STEM focus.
The middle school teacher, Josh A,, who just emailed shared his success from the grant project titled"Raising the Profile of Middle School Science Through Filmmaking". Here is what he wrote: "I just wanted to write you and fill you in as to what has happened so far with my grant. I received video equipment, computers, and editing equipment. We started by creating three physics movies. Each of these movies focuses on Newton's laws of Motion and are pretty good. Students chose different styles to show that they understood the concepts. This year we are in full swing and have already begun making movies with the students. I am also "interviewing" students right now, having them answer a selection of questions that are based on common misconceptions in science. Students will answer the questions in front of the camera in the beginning of the year and then at the end of the year and we will compare answers. I already have students asking if they can do different projects with the camera this year, like filming flowers open, decomposition of fruit, etc. I plan on having about 35-40 student made science movies by the end of the year."
It seems to me that film making, art and technology go hand-in-hand.
Another grant project was titled: "Creating Music with Technology".
How exciting! Josh A. have moved beyond theory and is putting this merger into practice. It sounds like a really fun project too.
I think this is such an excellent question! I don't see how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics can be taught without some kind of art / creativity component. STEM is all the rage right now. I see many ways to integrate the arts into STEM related units. In fact, art educators have merged all of these subject areas into their curriculum for years. From building models to creating math related art, it is very easy to combine subject areas. I too have made videos with the students who "acted out" questions on the science portion of our state assessment. I could make lists of all the art projects I have done over the years that could be easily used to support STEM programs. Also, this is a great way to promote collaborations with other teachers.
Sheree (aka: wizzlewolf)
Just found this article and it relates:
Why Scientific Innovation Needs The Arts - The Guardian (UK) 11/14/10
There is a great program called Artbotics that inspires students to learn about technology while creating art pieces.
It is a program that is looking to expand nationwide.
This is an interesting program and has much Higher Education level support for K12 student involvement. Have you been involved with this program as a teacher? Have you had students in the program? What personal experience can you share with us? I'd love to hear more.
Jane Brown
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Holly Yanco is the brains behind the operation. She is an amazing person and has developed the Artbotics program through an NSF grant. I've attended the teacher training session and loved it. Teacher training sessions are done throughout the year and Holly hopes to bring the program nationwide
Recently the program I work on, Dot Diva (www.dotdiva.org) had a launch party at the Microsoft Center in Cambridge, MA and we showcased two of her Artbotics students and their work.
We have had some amazing results with high school students at Taos Academy in New Mexico with our STEMArts pilot program...www.stemarts.com. Our vision is to encourage interdisciplinary multi-age collaborations that integrate art, science and technology while proposing creative solutions to real world problems. STEMArts experiments with innovative ways to engage high school students in meaningful collaborations that help them find their passion. ....participating students have improved in their science/math scores and their interest in school increased drastically.
What good is engineering if you do not have the creativity to envision future projects? Would technology have ever progressed without innovation? The "thinking" of the Arts definitely influences the more practical applications. Schools need to understand the value of the arts in developing free-thinking and imaginative people. I think some of the responsibility lies on the shoulders of the teachers of the Fine Arts. In my music classroom, I tie in all curricular areas as much as possible. Some students truly struggle with the core curriculum subjects. Those same students often look forward to coming to school just for their music or art classes. A positive move to inclusive education program develops well-rounded, future-thinking adults. STEM should become STEAM....The heat of good education produces STEAM.
So eloquently stated! Our students need a broad education in K12 with each subject supporting the others. I'm sure your students, parents, and your school are pleased to have you as one of their Fine Arts teachers.
I am pleased to meet another supporter. I have recently been working on an International Competition for solving real world problems. While it is far from my present assignment of Music education, it speaks directly to the STEM process of working on real world problems. The critical thinking and collaborative skills of performing in a band or chorus develops strong skills for my students to work on other areas.
It is good for your students to meet you on grounds other than the classroom. I'd love to hear about the real life problem chosen, how your students do with the competiion what ideas they generate when you can tell us.
In Math we often took real life problems brought to us by the community and parents and reported back our best answers and recommendations. Students were so much more involved in a problem they knew was of value to an adult in the community.
I can answer this question in two words - Destination ImagiNation. This international non-profit provides open-ended challenges that are solved by teams of students, who present their solutions at tournaments. The 7 challenges have different focuses so there is something to please everyone - technical, scientific, fine arts, improvisation, architectural/engineering, service learning, and early learners. But every challenge requires a theatrical presentation which can include any arts that the teams wish to feature. The theory is that the greatest scientist or architect in the world won't get very far if he/she can't present his/her findings in a creative and attention-getting way.
Check out the program at www.idodi.org - look at the challenge summaries on the 2011-2012 Season tab.
This is an after-school program that can be led by teachers and/or parents. It draws direct connections to the content learning standards and is right on target with Common Core. My local non-profit receives some matching grant funding to run Destination ImagiNation in Maryland.
The Rhode Island School of Design has been active in this area with an initiative called STEM to STEAM. Here are a few links:
I don't know much about it beyond what I've read, but it sounds promising.
At any rate it's interesting to hear that their are multiple efforts on this front. It is certainly needed.
Hi Jane,
I just watched a TED talk recently that shows how the arts can blend with STEM. The video is wonderfully moving, so I encourage you to watch it.
To learn more about the "Dance Your PhD" program, you can visit: http://gonzolabs.org/dance/
What do you think about this idea? Do you think that your students could work with the dance or music department to help explain a difficult concept?
This is an exciting idea for co-teaching a science topic. I can visualize how this becomes a great opportunity to bring 21st century learning into the classroom, perhaps be a project-based activity for students to develop, create, and share their product with our global community. I hope many of our members will take a look at this idea and send it to a colleague.
Do let us know if you try this idea at any grade level with any science topic and how it goes.
Thanks for sharing this, Crystal! I read about the Dance Your PhD contest shortly after the winners were announced. I think it's a really great idea, especially when you think about just how complex some dissertations/degree subject matters are to the non-STEM-specific person. Using the arts to describe complex concepts makes them more easily accessible and comprehensible to people, and possibly makes them less scary to students who might never consider entering STEM due to feeling intimidated or feeling discouraged that STEM=not fun. But these PhD students show that you can be in the STEM world and still embrace the arts and vice versa.
I think integrating art and creativity into the STEM curriculum is a must! I teach STEM/elementary engineering at my school as part of the Fine Arts rotation and many of our activities include art standards/benchmarks. I do a lot of hands-on problem solving project based learning with the students to help them understand some of the science and engineering (not to mention mathematical) concepts that are otherwise more difficult for the students to grasp. We began our first unit of the year, Engineering Design Process, by the students taking an everyday object such as a straw, spoon, or popsicle stick, and turning it into something else that is useful. This required a great deal of creativity and art. About half of the supplies in my engineering lab are supplies that can be found in most art teachers rooms.
Hello Michelle, thanks for posting! I would love more information about your program. We are getting ready to turn my K-4 Computer Lab "special" into a STEM course. Would love to see your curriculum and/or some of your units, understand how you structure the classes and differentiate, how often you see the students, etc. More on our story: http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/?p=157. I'm @kjarrett on Twitter and am not following you! Let's connect!
Jane, interesting that you should ask how STEM can converge with the Arts to increase creativity and innovation. I attended the California Science Education Conference this past October in Pasadena. The Saturday evening session was The Art of Science Learning—Turning Imagination into Innovation. During the session Wyland spoke about painting 100 "Whaling Wall" murals to educate the public and raise awareness about environmental issues. Other speakers included Harvey Seifter, founder of the Art of Science Learning and Janet Yamaguchi, Vice President of the Discovery Science Center. A panel discussion followed the presentations.
Harvey Seifter presented research conducted with Fortune 500 corporate leaders. One point I found quite intriguing was the business leaders' perspective in terms of a significant "innovation gap" in the workforce preparedness. The business leaders consider creativity, collaboration and communication to be critical to their companies' competitiveness, yet are finding those qualities and skills lacking in their potential employees. With this in mind, merging the Arts with STEM can help to improve the workforce preparedness in the future.
Janey Yamaguchi shared these science and art tips for educators:
I very much like the idea of the wailing wall. Thanks for sharing!
Incorporating art into STEM fields is a wonderful way to enhance the learning experience. The AAAS building, where Science NetLinks is developed, has an art gallery that highlights the intersection of art and science. I just blogged about the latest exhibit focused on the historical, scientific, and global impact of malaria. The exhibit is a great example of the way art and science can combine to help reach a broader audience.
As people have mentioned, AAAS also sponsors the quirky Dance Your Ph.D. contest by the Gonzo Scientist whose occasional online Science column is devoted to the intersection among science, culture, and art.
Another way AAAS & Science celebrate art as a way to communicate scientific ideas is the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. The challenge spotlights ways people have translated scientific data into formats that can be better understood by students and the general public. Check out this blog post to learn more, view a slideshow, and watch videos.
Because my work is about career planning and development, I see this question through a particular lense that looks for the connections that folks expeience in their lives - how are Art and STEM connected. So when this discussion resurfaced ... I was pondering. Then in the mail today comes an interesting idea from the American Chemical Society.
Is that painting in your attic an original Old Masters print? Is your grandmother's stained glass really 800 years old (Hint: metal nanoparticles)? Using modern instruments, a conservation scientist can identify the chemical make-up of pigment from just a single microscopic particle of the colorant. While chemistry cannot appraise the value of your art, it can help confirm if the item you have is historic (or a fake). Kristin Wustholz of the College of William and Mary will share analytical methods that are applied to art conservation. Do you have a piece for the Antiques Roadshow?
This is the topic of a coming webinar (FREE) that is part of their Joy of Science Channel: Extreme Chemistry Series.
How cool is that! Linking what might be a common experience to the work of scientists who actually explore these kinds of experiences. The boundaries are transgressed!
Thought I'd share this story from NPR:
When Art Meets Science, You'll Get the Picture
Artists were asked to create works based on science fair projects for SciArt, "an art-meets-science mashup" sponsored by Intel.
"Scientists often struggle to explain their work to us nonscientists. Art to the rescue! In a new collaboration, artists are taking the inventions of teenage scientists and turning them into posters. Science inspires art. And the art inspires questions."
I have done a lot of work in this area - www.steamedu.com
Recent blog post from Scientific American:
"Camouflage for soldiers in the United States armed forces was invented by American painter Abbot Thayer. Earl Bakken based his pacemaker on a musical metronome. Japanese origami inspired medical stents and improvements to vehicle airbag technology. Steve Jobs described himself and his colleagues at Apple as artists."
Full post: From STEM to STEAM: Science and Art Go Hand-in-Hand
I think this is an interesting piece about a researcher at Scripps who creates medical illustrations with watercolors. It's worth it to click through to both his site and to that of the PhD student mentioned late in the story, who has some amazing jewelry based on amino acids.
Here's a fun idea for your elementary school classroom: Science Friday radio show is asking for crowd-sourced pictures of fall leaves.
(And if you decide to participate, here's Science NetLinks' K-2 lesson, Look at Those Leaves!, to tie it back to your science curriculum.)
The Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center has an a gallery of images from Landsat observation satellites. There are three "Earth As Art" collections that showcase striking images of geological formations and agricultural patterns. Earlier this year, the public voted for the top five images which can be seen here. Below is an image of the Yukon Delta in southwest Alaska.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/USGS
NASA has released a free e-book with 75 images from their "Earth As Art" collection. You can download the PDF and the accompanying iPad App here.
As a science teacher, engineering teacher, and now science curriculum specialist working on a design team to build our own STEAMM academy, I found all these posts very enlightening, and i've bookmarked all of the links.
Just in case you all were wondering, our extra "M" stands for medicine. Our vision is to open a 6-8 middle school in the fall.
I wonder if any of you have ever come across a "STEAMM" school before? I'd love some feedback, resources, and suggestions for how to turn our vision into a reality.
The winners of the 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge have just been announced. The competition was created to "recognize the best examples of projects that bring scientific information to life. The goal was to encourage new ways to visualize data-efforts that are increasingly important for conveying scientific principles and ideas across disciplines and to the general public, and for revealing the hidden beauty of structures on scales from nanometers to the cosmos."
The FREE special feature from Science includes articles and slideshows from all five categories:
If you are in the DC area, come to Images of Our Solar System: Science Meets Art next Wednesday, March 27, from 5:30-8:00 pm at AAAS. The Planetfall exhibit features images of the Sun, Earth, other planets, planetary satellites, asteroids, and more. The opening event will feature a discussion with artist Michael Benson and Nancy Chabot, a planetary geologist, followed by a reception.
This event is FREE but you must RSVP.
If you can't make it to the opening, the exhibit will be up in the AAAS Art Gallery through June 28.
Hope to see you there!
If you head over to this NPR story on how "Science Rap B.A.T.T.L.E.S. Brings Hip-Hop into the Classroom," you can check out two videos on how middle- and high-school students are using music to share what they're learning in the science classroom.
This blog post from National Geographic Education talks about how teachers can use mapping technology to give context to English Language Arts. It's an awesome way to get literature students interested in geography, mapping, and technology, and it also has potential to engage technology-loving students with their reading material! Check it out: Mapping Tools to Teach English Language Arts? | Nat Geo Education Blog.
The Science of Art Policy is the new exhibit in the AAAS gallery.
"With seventy artworks from sixteen different artists, the new exhibition discusses policy issues on science-based topics such as health, education, immigration, security, agriculture, and the environment. The exhibit, including batik dyed silks that discuss climate change, a spider sculpted from scissors that were confiscated by the TSA, and Dutch still-life styled paintings fueled by genetic research--is intended to provoke discussion about how policy in these areas has evolved over the past four decades, and how the conversation may change over the next forty years."
If you are in the DC area, please stop by our building and take a look! The gallery is FREE and open to the public from 9-5 on weekdays.
Pop Art: Gorgeous Blooms of Paint, Made With Exploding Balloons is an article in Wired profiling artist Fabian Oefner. In a series of photographs he captured split-second images of richly colored paint flying off exploding balloons.
"My work could be described as visual science. I'm trying to find out more about the world surrounding me by creating images that are a gateway to an invisible dimension."
Be sure to check out the artist's website where you'll find his work visualizing sound with crystals, experimenting with the magnetic properties of ferrofluid, and creating nebulas with fiber glass lamps.
We've got a great new exhibit at AAAS headquarters in DC called Beauty and the Brain. Check out my blog post about it. If you are in the area stop by and have a look. We also welcome school visits. If you'd like to inquire about that just ask me!
The exhibit is based on the research of Dr. Ed Connor of Johns Hopkins University. It's ongoing research on the neuroscience of aethetics. It even features a 3-D component and 3-D glasses. I think there is lots that can be done with it from an educational standpoint.
Winners of the 2013 Nikon Small World Competition were announced today. This contest showcases "the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope."
This image of Chaetoceros debilis (marine diatom), a colonial plankton organism by Wim van Egmond took first place.
Go check out the rest of the stunning photos!
I love this beautiful paper-puppet animation from the NY Times celebrating the life of A.R. Wallace, the man who is co-credited with Darwin for the theory of natural selection.
'The Animated Life of A.R. Wallace'
Although Alfred Russel Wallace made one of the most important scientific discoveries in history, he's been all but forgotten.


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knitknit on 9/7/2013 1:13:00 AM more reviews by knitknit
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse Eyes: Blue
This is fine at first.
Slowly more and more hairs become ingrown, until your legs are a painful field of red bumps and infected follicles.
Now you must cover your whole legs, all day every day.
You cannot subject innocent bystanders to that awful sight.
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aryel02 on 1/21/2013 6:23:00 PM more reviews by aryel02
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Medium Brown Hair: Black, Straight, Coarse Eyes: Black
I have had the Braun SilkEpil 3 for over three years. I absolutely love this product. I have naturally thick hair, which is great on the head but not so much everywhere else... I also shaved my legs and armpits for many years. Then, I switched to waxing but it was too much of a hassle for me to do it at home. Thus, the epilator.
I have only used this on my armpits and legs. While I have a very high pain threshold, epilating was quite an unpleasant experience in the first few weeks. After three years, I barely feel anything on my legs anymore. Armpit area is still a little more sensitive if I don't maintain it regularly. I won't go into details as to how I use the epilator because Ultraviolet wrote a great review and it contains a lot of great tips. The only thing I would add is to dust a little baby powder on the area you want to epilate right before you start epilating. This really helps in reducing the pain/any discomfort you may feel. I did that for the armpits in the first few months and it helps a lot.
The process may be long at first because you're not used to it. The first time I used it, I think it took me about 45 minutes to do both my legs. I was a little discouraged but thankfully I persisted in using the epilator! Now, it takes me about 10 minutes to do the bottom part of my legs if I do it regularly (once/2 weeks). I rarely do my thighs because the hair has gotten very light over the years. Also, there are areas where I don't get hair anymore (inner thighs, near the knees mainly).
Overall, this is a great product. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an alternative to shaving/waxing. Also, if you're worried about the pain, buy it at a store that'll let you return the product in case you don't like it. The first epilator I got was a Panasonic (can't remember which one) and I ended up returning it after the first use because it was just too big for my tiny hand.
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nataliecloud9 on 4/23/2012 7:59:00 PM more reviews by nataliecloud9
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Other
Silk-épil is a good epilator, if this is the route you chose for hair removal. It has been my method for the past year. But today was the last straw! (I'll tell you why, read on..) I've decided to stop using this and switch to hair removal cream.
People.. Be Warned!
After my experience with epiliating for a year straight, I ended up with massive, unsightly, ingrown hairs all over my legs!
They caused infections... Huge red bumps... And scars...My legs look HORRIBLE :( I had to use tweezers to *painfully,* squeeze out the ingrown hair. It is a faint-worthy process :( For the really bad ones, I had to have them professionally extracted. Today I had to deal with a massive in grown hair that I was finally able to extract, and I almost passed out. So that is why I'm throwing in the towel with epilating.
So seriously, if you are going to use this... EXFOLIATE! (I thought I exfoliated really good, since I scrub so hard my skin goes red, but obviously not good enough.) Expilating doesn't have the exfoliating effect that shaving, waxing and hair removal creams have, so you are prone to ingrown hairs.
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*TOP REVIEWER* DuchessofGrapes on 3/20/2012 9:52:00 AM more reviews by DuchessofGrapes
Age: 25-29 Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Cool Hair: Other, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
I am actually really impressed with this epilator. I've been using then for about 4 years now and they're great! Does it hurt? Yes! Does it really pull the hair out from the root? No. But does it last longer than shaving? Absolutely. I did a lot of research on this and I have a few tips for those who are starting with their epilators. First off, go and get a wax first. I did a full body wax since I planned on using this on my arms, underarms, and legs. I prefer sugaring since it doesn't leave my skin red and irritated and it seemed to hurt less. A week later, use your epilator. You may get some hair, you may not. But it's better to just try anyways. Then use the epilator weekly thereafter. You won't get anywhere near as much hair as you would if you didn't wax first. I'm very sensitive to pain, so this is a much better way for me to do the epilating. If you don't want to do that, you could always shave, and then use the epilator daily for a 2 weeks, then weekly from there. Here are a few more tips:
1. Take a hot shower or bath before hand. It'll open up your pores a little and the hair seems to come from a lot deeper. Some people also exfoliate, but I just use my regular body wash with my Salux cloth. It works just great.
2. Make sure your skin is SUPER dry. No lotion or oil after getting out the shower.
3. Apply powder. I use corn starch, but lots of people use talcum powder.
4. Hold the skin tight. Just move your hand along with the epilator.
5. Moisturize afterwards. I like to hop back in the shower and wash again, then I use a body oil.
I've never had an issue with ingrowns, but I also exfoliate and do a body mud mask weekly. That helps a ton with all kinds of body skin issues that I have. But all in all, I love this product. I'm on my 3rd one, so I do wish they lasted a little longer, but otherwise it's still much more effective than shaving and much cheaper than waxing. Great product!
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*TOP REVIEWER* xBl0cPartyx on 8/16/2011 4:26:00 PM more reviews by xBl0cPartyx
Age: 19-24 Skin: Very Oily, Olive, Warm Hair: Black, Curly, Medium Eyes: Brown
In total I would say I've bee epilating for around six years now and this Braun one is my second epilator. The first one was a 'beginner' epilator with maybe only 20 tweezers on it which took forever to epilate and made SO much noise but this one is so much better. I have the Braun silk epil 5, I think it is? The light is very, very helpful in epilating! It's also not as noisy as my old one which is a plus and the increase of tweezers is very helpful. BUT, I prefer to epilate without the little attachment things that come with it, you know interchangeable heads? The tweezers can actually sometimes catch onto my skin and pull at it and rip it. :/ so I can bleed for a little while. That's why I wouldn't repurchase. At first it hurt to epilate but if you keep up with it very soon you won't even feel it :)
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*TOP REVIEWER* katushka37 on 7/21/2011 6:38:00 AM more reviews by katushka37
Age: 25-29 Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
I wanted to try epilator for ages but was too afraid that it is going to hurt. I tried waxing but because my hair is fine and sparse it hurt a lot and didn't remove a lot of hair. Hair removing creams didn't work for some reason and shaving was my only method of removing unwanted hair from my legs.
My friend been using one for ages so she told me to give it a shot. I've picked one up on sale for $75. I took a shower and dried my skin well (don't apply moisturiser otherwise it won't grip properly). Initially it stung a bit but you get used to it pretty quick. It removed abut 80% of hair and only left very fine invisible hair. My legs felt so smooth and looked awesome!!! 5 days later - no re-growth or irritation (like i get from shaving)...Give it a go!
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anee on 6/6/2011 5:09:00 PM more reviews by anee
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Black
I really liked the way it removes all the hair from my skin.It doesn't hurt me at all.I love the packaging.It is portable travel size.I can take it with me any where.My hair after the use of this epilator grew very late.BUY IT!!
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meleaf on 1/29/2011 10:22:00 AM more reviews by meleaf
Age: 44-55 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
This review is for the Braun Silk-epil X elle 5270. I have had this for years - more than I can count. I am sure I bought it at Linen's n Things with a 20% off coupon. Before this I had an Epilady, which I loved until it died of old age.
I have very fair skin, and very fine hair on my body. I waxed for years because everytime I shaved my legs I cut myself. Partly because I have thin skin, but mostly because I am a klutz.
Waxing is expensive and requires advance planning/appointment. Then it's a crap shoot finding someone who does a good job.
I love my epilator. There is a slight pinch when I use it. No worse than waxing. I have used this for so long, pulling the hairs out by the roots, that in all thise places the hair grows in less and less.
I use this on my legs, on some hair on my upper lip (very fine and blonde), on my bikini area and under my arms. I find the underarm area the most painful, but sois waxing there. I am goun to try using frozen peas as suggested here.
I love my Braun epilator.
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makeup26 on 1/29/2011 10:06:00 AM more reviews by makeup26
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Sensitive, Tan Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Brown
The Braun SIlk Epil is absolutely brilliant! After reading so many reviews about how painful epilating can be I was a bit scared, but still eager to try it out.
I chose the Braun because its a well known brand and I wanted something that was going to work well.This is my first epilator and hopefully it will last a long time because I love it.
So once I turned it on it was loud and thats probably the worst part about using it-especially if your first time.The noise can be a bit daunting but once I tried it out on my leg it was comparable to a quick pinch.Yes it hurt a little, but it was a bearable pain and well worth it.
The results are great and the bonus is you can do this yourself at home because there's no mess unlike with waxing.The model I have comes with a massage head to lessen the discomfort as much as possible and when I used it I found it fairly relaxing.
Beauty is pain but its worth it when you see the results.
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*TOP REVIEWER* kathrynb23 on 1/19/2011 6:43:00 PM more reviews by kathrynb23
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Medium, Neutral Hair: Black, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
Oh gosh, this was the most ridiculous thing I've ever brought! I dont even know what I was thinking at the time of purchase! I dont like pain, I dont like inflicting pain on myself, therefore what was I thinking?
I brought the Braun Silk Epilator, about 2 years ago just before that christmas, cause it was on sale, I couldn't resist, but it was still $100AUD. Ouch! it was like little mechanical tweezers pulling out your hair, at least with a manual tweezer, I'll be more gentle.
All together, they hurt, their noisy, their hard to use, and they can lead to ingrown hair. I rather stick to my razor.
Even though I find it painful, a lot of other people I know, I dont know how they do it, but they cant live without their Epilator!


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Many have heard New Orleans called the "birthplace of jazz," but you may not be aware that about 100 years earlier New Orleans was also home to the first opera house in North America as well as the United States' first professional orchestra! The Crescent City has a rich musical heritage, and the UIS Chamber Orchestra is spending much of its time this academic year exploring a slice of this history when "classical music" and jazz competed for popularity and influenced one another.
Dancing and dance music has been wildly popular in the Crescent City for almost as long as the city has existed. For much of its history, and through the early days of jazz, at least one dance could be found on any given night in the many dance halls of New Orleans. Weekends in the summer saw many dances at once, all around the city, each catering to different social classes, ethnicities, interests, etc. There are even accounts of dance hall owners pumping nitrous oxide into their venue as a way to increase patrons' enjoyment. Can you imagine it … 19th-century raves! Today, this is an especially comical thought considering the fact that music at these 19th-century events was
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A violinist, Robichaux's dance orchestra typically included violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, clarinet, cornet, trombone, piano, and drums. Audiences today might perceive this group as a small chamber orchestra, with a traditional jazz band tossed in as lagniappe, or as a jazz band with strings. Additions and substitutions such as tuba, horn, banjo, or guitar might also sway one's perception in a particular direction.
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Rumor is going around the first time you kill him you're guaranteed a BoA? But no one in our guild got one. Anyone have a source of them saying how we're supposed to get them?
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I thought they said the first one you got was guaranteed for your spec and the ones after that could be any kind of weapon, not that the actual drop was guaranteed.
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Siege of Orgrimmar has a little bit of branching in paths and ideally raids in the future will have more, allowing you to skip a boss or do bosses in a slightly different order.
The first three or four bosses shouldn't be too hard for most raiding guilds, allowing them to have bosses they can use to gear up with as they progress.
The heirloom weapons that drop from Garrosh are personal loot in Flex, Normal, and Heroic difficulty.
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When we killed him last night, 1 out of 25 people got an heirloom weapon, so it would seem it's just a chance to drop them, probably equal to the chance of getting loot in LFR.
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Augmented reality app lets you see through catalog models' clothing
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Here's an unlikely recipe for successfully spicing up a winter clothes catalog – make the models lose their clothes, or to be more exact, allow your clients to see what is hiding underneath the bulky winter garments. The X-Ray augmented reality app by clothing retailer Moosejaw does exactly that. It uses your mobile device's camera and some augmented reality trickery to grant you X-ray vision, as you scan both female and male models' bodies in the catalog. All you have to do is position your device over the catalog pages.
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Of all the e-mails I get sent every day, by far the most common — from men and women alike — are questions about the best way to lose belly fat.
A pot belly… love handles… the spare tire… call it what you will. It seems to be the area of your body that you'd really like to do something about.
There are two main types of fat in the stomach area. Visceral fat is stored deep inside your body. It surrounds and protects your internal organs.
Subcutaneous fat, on the other hand, is stored just under your skin. It's the stuff that wobbles when you jump up and down.
Read on, and I'll explain the best way to get rid of belly fat as fast as humanly possible.
Belly Fat and How to Beat It
It's often said that you should do aerobic exercise to lose fat, and train with weights if you want to build muscle. But that statement is only partially true.
The only thing you need to lose fat is a calorie deficit. You can create that deficit with resistance exercise, aerobic exercise, or a combination of the two.
Resistance training isn't just for people who want to gain muscle, and will improve your body composition in two ways.
Firstly, if you don't do some form of resistance exercise while you diet, much of the weight you lose will come from muscle as well as fat.
Losing muscle means that you'll lose weight more quickly, as one pound of muscle contains a lot less energy than one pound of fat [3].
But you'll just end up looking like a slightly smaller version of your current self, with many of the "flabby bits" still intact.
The Workout That Burns Belly Fat
Second, with a properly designed strength-training program, you'll burn fat both during and after your workout.
In one study, researchers from East Carolina University had a group of eight men lift weights for 40-45 minutes [6]. Each man had a microdialysis probe inserted into his belly. This allowed the researchers to measure the amount of fat that was released from fat cells under the skin before, during, and after the workout.
Here's what they found:
Metabolic rate was over 10% higher after the men had lifted weights (104 calories per hour) compared with the same time point on the control day (95 calories per hour). The rate of fat burning was doubled (10 versus 5 grams per hour) following resistance exercise.
But that's not all. The amount of fat being released from fat cells in the stomach was around 80% higher both during and immediately after the workout.
In other words, lifting weights will burn fat, and some of that fat will come straight from your belly.
It's true that many studies to compare resistance with aerobic exercise show that, on the whole, aerobic exercise works a lot better for getting rid of belly fat [4].
However, many of these studies use resistance training programs with a very low metabolic demand — the exercises are performed on machines, many of them are single-joint movements that isolate small muscle groups, and the overall training volume is relatively low.
A routine based on exercises with a high metabolic demand is another story entirely.
I'm talking about squats, deadlifts, rows, chin-ups (or pulldowns) and presses (bench press and overhead press), using a weight that limits you to between 5 and 15 repetitions per set.
With this type of training, you'll burn calories both during and after the workout. And unless you have plans to step in the ring with Georges St-Pierre, you won't need to spend more than 45 minutes in the gym. That's more than enough to get the job done.
The Simple Diet That Fights Belly Fat
Think of your belly fat like a bank account. But instead of storing money, it stores calories.
If you want the amount of money stored in your bank account to go down, you have to spend more money than you're paying in. In much the same way, getting rid of belly fat is all about "spending" more calories than you eat.
That's not to say that calories are the only thing that counts, because they're not.
Fat, protein and carbohydrate are different things, and your body handles them differently. This affects the total number of calories your body can extract from each one.
The composition of your diet matters. It affects things like hormone levels, appetite, energy expenditure and so on, all of which will have an influence on how much of the weight you lose comes from muscle or fat.
As a rule-of-thumb, the quantity of the calories in your diet dictates how much weight you lose, while the quality of those calories affects where that lost weight comes from.
In other words, you can't ignore the macronutrient content of a diet and expect to see an identical change in body composition based on calorie values alone.
But no matter which way you look at it, losing belly fat still requires a calorie deficit. Don't allow yourself to be seduced into following an overly complicated diet masquerading under the guise of a "new and revolutionary" approach to weight loss.
The Truth about Fat Burning Foods
One question that seems to appear in my inbox on an almost daily basis centers on the effect that individual foods have on weight loss.
It seems people want to hear that there are "good" foods and "bad" foods, and if you want to drop fat, all you need to do is eat less of the bad ones and more of the good ones.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the idea there are special foods (blueberries, dark chocolate, avocados and so on) that will somehow burn fat is complete nonsense.
But it's the sort of nonsense that seems to pop up every so often on daytime TV or in the happy-clappy health magazines when they've got no more "declutter your life" or "I'm okay and you're okay" articles left to publish.
There are certain "hot" foods (such as red pepper) that give your metabolism a lift [10]. But the overall effect is relatively small, and it's debatable whether the short-term increase in metabolism has much of an impact on fat loss over time.
At the risk of repeating myself, getting rid of belly fat requires a calorie deficit, and it's your overall diet rather than any individual food that will determine your rate of fat loss.
How Protein Helps You Burn Belly Fat
Studies show that protein does a better job at filling you up than carbohydrate or fat. Eat a protein-rich breakfast, for example, and chances are that you won't eat as much food for lunch.
The figure below is from a University of Washington study where dieters were told to eat roughly twice as much protein as normal [8]. The circles at the top represent daily calorie intake, while the diamonds at the bottom represent body weight.
As you can see, eating more protein led to a spontaneous reduction in calorie intake that lasted for the length of the study. In fact, calorie intake dropped by an average of 441 calories per day.
Protein also has a "muscle sparing" effect during fat loss. If you don't get enough protein while you're on a diet, you'll end up dropping muscle as well as fat.
Finally, protein increases postprandial thermogenesis to a greater extent than carbohydrate or fat [5].
A chocolate bar (mainly carbs and fat) and a chicken breast (mainly protein) might have the same number of calories. But because the thermic effect of protein is higher than that of carbs or fat, your body uses up more energy processing the chicken than it does the chocolate bar.
In other words, some of the energy in each gram of protein is "wasted" while it's digested and metabolized.
The Combo That Makes Your Belly Fat Vanish
If you're just starting out, you can forget about cardio altogether and rely on diet and strength training to create the calorie deficit needed for weight loss.
Then, when your rate of fat loss starts to slow down (which it will), add some low-intensity steady-state (LISS) cardio to your program, even if it's just 30 minutes of brisk walking three or four mornings each week.
Just four steps of these steps alone – creating a calorie deficit, eating more protein, and combining strength training with cardio – has been shown to work almost twice as well as the traditional high-carbohydrate diet + cardiovascular exercise approach to losing abdominal fat [1].
Some say that a rise in cortisol levels caused by too much exercise will actually make your belly bigger.
This is based on research showing an association between stress-induced cortisol secretion and abdominal fat [2].
In scientific lingo, visceral fat cells are more "metabolically active" than subcutaneous fat cells. Not only are they more sensitive to the effects of circulating cortisol than fat cells in other parts of your body, they also have more receptors that respond to cortisol by activating enzymes that store fat [7].
However, the link between belly fat and cortisol has little to do with the short-term rise in cortisol that occurs during and after exercise.
The real problems come when cortisol levels are elevated for prolonged periods, which is often due to constant physiological and/or psychological stress.
People who secrete large amounts of cortisol in response to stress (hypersecreters) are the ones most likely to eat more as a way of dealing with that stress. When they're given a choice of foods to eat, they will usually pick the stuff that's high in fat and sugar.
So if you are a cortisol hypersecreter, there's a good chance that you're going to crave high sugar or high fat "comfort food" whenever your level of stress starts to boil over. Not only that, but many of the extra calories you eat during a stress-induced binge are going to be stored in your belly.
But just to repeat, these problems are linked with prolonged exposure to high levels of cortisol. The short-term rise in cortisol during and after exercise is not something you need to worry about.
I know there are supplements out there promising to help you lose belly fat by lowering cortisol levels.
The companies selling these products have taken a small piece of research, twisted it round and used it to sell their products.
They'll tell you "it's not your fault" that you're fat. It's all down to cortisol. Just take this pill, your cortisol levels will drop and the belly fat will almost magically disappear.
This is, of course, complete nonsense. Cortisol does have the potential to cause weight gain, but that's mainly because of the effect it has on your appetite. It won't cause you to gain weight in the absence of a calorie surplus, nor to lose weight in the absence of a calorie deficit.
Why Crunches Won't Reveal Your Abs
Please don't waste time doing hundreds of crunches, sit-ups, or any of the various "drawing in the belly button" exercises. They're virtually useless when it comes to losing belly fat.
Researchers from Illinois took a group of 24 participants and assigned them to one of two groups [9]. The first group did nothing, while group two performed seven abdominal exercises (2 sets x 10 repetitions), five days a week for six weeks.
A grand total 4,200 repetitions of various abdominal exercises over a six-week period had "no significant effect" on the amount of fat stored around the stomach. Please don't waste your time trying to burn off stomach fat by twisting and crunching it away.
Finally, you'll need to be consistent. To lose belly fat, eating right and exercising regularly needs to become a habit, not just something you do when you can be bothered or when you have the time.
If your current schedule makes it difficult to find the time for exercise, change it. Get out of bed earlier. Turn off the TV. Stop wasting time on Facebook.
If you enjoyed this post, there's a good chance you'll also like Truth and Lies about Building Muscle: 10 Muscle Myths Debunked By Science.
It's a FREE 20-page special report (PDF) I put together to debunk 10 popular myths that are still widely believed, despite all the evidence to the contrary. You can download a copy here.
SHAMELESS PLUG: Muscle Evo wraps up all my best ideas and advice into a complete science-based training program that you can use to get the "lean, strong and athletic" look without spending unnecessary hours in the gym. Click here to learn more about Muscle Evo.
About Christian FinnChristian Finn holds a master's degree in exercise science, is a certified personal trainer and has been featured on BBC TV and radio, as well as in Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Fit Pro, Zest, and Perfect Body magazine. You can contact Christian using Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or via e-mail.
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Corporations banning travel to certain Asian destinations jumped from 24 percent to 58 percent during the one-week period between surveys. Other findings: Companies taking no action dropped from 24 percent to 7 percent, and those just providing advisories and guidance dropped from 41 percent to 33 percent.
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For more on the survey, go to BTC SARS Watch.