As this year's BlogHer annual conference approaches, many conference goers have found or are still looking for roommates. (If you are looking check the room share forum) Every year after the conference, blogs abound with tales of new friendships formed through the serendipity of room sharing.

Trying to choose a cookware set can be very confusing!  There are so many different metals, different sizes, weights, handles, colours, surfaces and a huge price range…how do you know what is right for you, before you spend your hard-earned cash? Here is a simple guide to choosing a cookware set that you will love and use. How Do You Cook?

It's time once again for another edition of science medley, your resource for cocktail party conversation fodder, blog posts by women of science, and--this month--one reason to embrace your gray. Yes, you read that correctly. Over at the Beauty Brains, you can learn why gray hair is good. In a nutshell:

"You know, crazy people shouldn't be allowed to procreate. They shouldn't pass their psycho genes onto any innocent, unborn child." Thanks to an old, ignorant co-worker that blurted this out in my presence. I sat in my tiny, hospital provided box, unsure of whether I'd heard this person (I'll call her L) correctly. She didn't say that, did she? L was a person that was born into had to have been made fun of at one time or another. She had been teased and taunted as a child and as a young adult. To hear these ignorant words come out of her mouth was shocking.

It has been over 10 years since I have landed to this country. I knew nothing of the country and had never set foot in the USA before I moved here. Television was my only window to what America had to offer. I chose to come here, sadly, based on the fact that I knew no-one here and wanted an adventure. Although many commended the bravery in the move I knew it was based on not such profound decisions.