The Death of Fashion in Harajuku

For 20 years now photographer Shoichi Aoki has documented street fashion in the hyper-stylized Tokyo neighborhood of Harajuku. Despite the neighborhood’s small size, its impact on Japanese culture has been expansive—especially in fashion, where it made popular bold, colorful and cartoonish sensibilities. The area and its occupants have changed, however, with mass-market clothing brands dominating. This has led to Aoki’s pronouncement that street-style photography here …

Medical Marijuana and Mesothelioma

Whether used as an alternative treatment or for relief from pain or nausea, people suffering from mesothelioma sometimes turn to medical marijuana. The intense vomiting that chemotherapy can induce is sometimes enough for patients to give up on the possibly life-saving treatment, which is just one of the many reasons a push for legalizing cannabis is so important in almost half the states in the …

New Planets Are a Google Doodle

The news that NASA discovered an exoplanet system some 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) away from Earth—three of which are in the habitable (or Goldilocks) zone—was a big deal yesterday. Never a company to be too late to the party, Google created a very cute Doodle celebrating the seven planets. With Earth, our moon and each of the “new” planets having their own, sweet personality, …