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☆ Lolita style, explained: Why the Japanese-born, Victorian-inspired street style enchants women around the world
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Her youthful obsession realized in front of her, Ella was inspired to buy her first piece of Lolita fashion in 2015, from the popular Lolita e-tailer Angel Pretty. While Lolita style is named after Vladimir Nabokov’s eponymous teen in the controversial 1955 novel, the overlap ends there. Even 1950s-style American prom dresses, with their extravagant skirts and bodices, influence contemporary Lolita fashion, he said. The skirt's fullness, achieved through the use of a petticoat, is a key characteristic of Lolita fashion. Ella says her personal Lolita style is a blend of classic and sweet, with a healthy dose of prints and patterns.

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☆ How water-bottle fill stations can impact children’s health, according to a new study
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Making water more accessible to kids leads to an increase in hydration and a decrease in children being overweight, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, included more than 1,200 students across 18 schools in California’s Bay Area. Half of the schools were gifted water dispensers in the cafeteria and water-bottle filling stations in areas of high traffic, Patel said. “I always tell people, drink water first — as that will reduce a person’s thirst and likelihood that they will drink sugary drinks. “If we really care about kids’ health, we won’t give them health information with a side of body shame, because we know weight stigma hurts kids’ health,” Hanson said.

Persons: ”, Anisha Patel, Patel, “, Asher Rosinger, Rosinger, Oona Hanson, Hanson, ” Hanson Organizations: CNN, Pediatrics, Stanford University in, Health, Nutrition, Pennsylvania State University Locations: California’s Bay, Stanford University in California, Los Angeles

Rarely is a ZIP Code an international celebrity. But that is the case with 90210, digits that became famous thanks in large part to the 1990s television drama “Beverly Hills 90210.” The ZIP Code is the primary one for Beverly Hills, Calif., a stand-alone city within central Los Angeles County. Today, 90210’s prestige endures: It has the priciest homes in Los Angeles, as ranked by median listing price, and some of the most expensive properties in the U.S., according to Realtor.com. It is outranked only by Atherton, in California’s Bay Area, and the Aspen, Colo., area. Walkable with green spaces, residents flock here for the public services, school district and tightknit community in the heart of the country’s second-biggest metropolitan area.

Persons: Atherton Organizations: News Corp, Street, Aspen Locations: Beverly, Beverly Hills, Calif, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, U.S, California’s Bay, Colo

☆ Timnit Gebru Is Calling Attention to the Pitfalls of AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

As a leading researcher on the ethics of artificial intelligence, Timnit Gebru has long believed that machine-learning algorithms could one day power much of our lives. What she didn’t predict was just how quickly this would happen. “I didn’t imagine people would be like, ‘Let’s replace lawyers with a chatbot,’ or ‘Let’s sell AI generated art that looks exactly like someone else’s,’” she says over video from her home in California’s Bay Area. Much of her work involves highlighting the ways AI programs can reinforce existing prejudices. “We talk about algorithms, but we don’t talk about who’s constructing the data set or who’s in the data set,” she says.

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