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If you’re using a particular book to make candles or soap, you may have a dangerous chemistry project on your hands. John Wiley & Sons Inc. is recalling 5,400 copies of the instruction book “Candle and Soap Making For Dummies,” which sold in bookstores and discount department stores nationwide in August and September for about $20.
The directions in the book for making lye instruct users to combine sodium hydroxide and water in an incorrect order. This could cause the mixture to bubble over, posing a burn hazard.

Modern photographers set up and photograph the same Paris scenes as French photographer Eugene Atget, who took over 6,000 photos of the city between 1900 and 1926. Fascinating to see what is the same and what has changed over the decades.
Reminds me a lot of a similar project, Vertigo: Then and Now which reproduces shots of San Franscisco as seen in Alfred Hitchock’s movie Vertigo.
I’ve wanted to do something similar in downtown Indy with some of the old postcards I’ve found, especially ones with gorgeous buildings that no longer exist.

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus author Dr John Gray said women should understand that emotional behaviour is often viewed by male work colleagues as a weakness. “Women have to speak the language of men at work,” he said. “For example, if a woman’s idea is stolen at a meeting, she should ensure she is not seen as a loser by taking it badly. “Men, even if they are rejected, will put a positive spin on things and women should be more graceful so they turn the negative into a positive.”
OR — men could stop being sexist pigs and judging women as weak because they express themselves differently than men. And if my idea is stolen at work, I always have the paper trail to back up that it was my idea… so men don’t get away with that where I work.

From Technology Review: Interesting… I would have picked a couple of these (like cosmetic implants and landmines), but some I never thought of the car as a technology that should go away. But their arguments for finding good replacements make sense.
1. Nuclear Weapons, 2. Coal-Based Power, 3. The Internal-Combustion Engine (yeah, the car), 4. Incandescent Light Bulbs, 5. Land Mines, 6. Manned Spaceflight, 7. Prisons, 8. Cosmetic Implants, 9. Lie Detectors, 10. DVDs.