Monday afternoon roundup

Professor Strassler explains the BICEP2 readings and why they matter.

Botox is not the most dangerous way to look younger, as Phil Plait claims; you can stick your head in a particle accelerator to literally freeze the age of your face.

I'm displeased to present another installment of STFU, Jezebel, based on a somewhat less annoying but still off NPR blog post. Let's start with the first one: Who's pressuring American women to conform to an unattainable ideal? And who cares if someone perceives you as wrong? I don't know where to start with this stuff; the sad thing is, there's some value in the point they're trying to make, which is that beauty standards can be oppressive. But millions of women also just opt out of them and go their own way. Instead of attacking the standards, we should be raising girls to not give a $hit.