Famous French Child Model Lives a Very Different Life Today

Back in 2006, long before social media feeds took over our daily lives, 5-year-old French child model Thylane Blondeau suddenly became a global sensation. Vogue Enfants crowned her “the most beautiful girl in the world,” leading to two decades of international spotlight and media fascination. She was practically born in the spotlight as the daughter of French football star Patrick Blondeau and TV personality Véronika Loubry. While most kids were learning to tie their shoes, she was walking the Jean Paul Gaultier runway at age 4 and doing photo shoots. In 2015, she officially signed with IMG Models and her career took off in a big way. She went from gracing magazine covers like Jalouse to starring alongside names like Zendaya in Dolce & Gabbana’s campaign. High-fashion runways like Tommy Hilfiger soon followed, and it wasn’t long before she landed an ambassador role with L’Oréal. She stepped into the business world at age 17 by launching her own clothing line, Heaven May. She later expanded by creating her beauty label, Enalyht, as well as No Smile, a Paris-based handmade apparel brand. Today, at 25, she’s married to French entrepreneur Benjamin Attal. While many child stars fade from public view under that kind of pressure, Blondeau has managed to transition into an established fashion fixture. Just this week, she was spotted sitting front-row at Zimmermann’s Spring/Summer showcase during Paris Fashion Week.

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3D-Printed Meat Will Soon Be Available at U.S. Supermarkets

We’ve all heard about the development of lab-grown meat and other alternatives to conventional meat, but most people thought the reality of that happening was still years away. It turns out that it’s not years away but here now. Steakholder Foods Ltd., a company specializing in 3D-printing technology for whole cuts of plant-based meat, is launching its Perfecta Premium Plant-Based Meat at stores throughout the Northeastern U.S. The company hasn’t revealed an exact launch date yet, but shoppers should start seeing it on shelves before the end of the year. Perfecta aims to tackle some of the biggest sticking points for plant-based meat: taste, texture, and recreating the overall experience of eating the real thing. Its initial lineup includes marbled steak, filet mignon, chicken breast, salmon patties, and white fish patties. Perfecta designed each product to replicate the sensory experience of its conventional counterpart, including tender, fibrous textures and marbling-like features intended to improve flavor and juiciness while retaining the nutritional benefits of plant-based meat.

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Scientifically Backed Ways to Recover from a Bad Day

We’ve all had bad days — the ones where absolutely nothing goes your way and things just keep getting worse as the day goes on. It’s actually called the "downward spiral of doom." The first bad thing may happen to us, but then our brain starts helping build the case that the whole day is ruined. Is there a scientific reason that some days are particularly awful? Believe it or not, yes. A day that seems to be spiraling out of control comes down to both how your brain is wired to notice threats and what’s happening chemically once it decides something qualifies as one. The amygdala — the part of the brain that regulates emotions — is heavily involved in sounding the alarm. If your brain decides there’s a threat, it signals areas such as the hypothalamus — the part of the brain that controls the nervous system — to get ready to respond. Your heart may beat faster, your muscles tense up, and your attention can narrow toward whatever seems wrong. Once that response is underway, reasoning, perspective and self-control take a vacation. That alarm also triggers a cortisol spike, which sets off a cascade of chemicals that send inflammatory signals through the brain. So what can you do to recover from a bad day that’s underway? Here are some tips from the experts:

• • Identifying what’s going on and calling it out can help break the spiral. Saying or writing out loud “I’m having a bad day” can be the beat you need to separate yourself from the negativity. 
• • Change your physical environment. If everything is irritating you, leave the room and do something random. Maybe that’s going shopping or taking a drive while listening to music that calms you down. Even simply moving to a different room can be enough to interrupt the spiral.
• • Get up and move. Even if you take a brief walk around the block, do a few jumping jacks, or anything that shifts your physical state. You don’t need a workout, just something to move your attention out of your head and back into your body.
• • Get into nature. Even noticing the sky, trees, weather or something beautiful around you can create some psychological distance from the problem. Sunlight helps replenish the dopamine and serotonin it needs.
• • Reset your breathing. Slowing your breathing, and making your exhale longer than your inhale, is one of the few direct physical levers you have on your stress response. Even doing it for just a minute can tell your body the emergency is over. 

The start of a bad day doesn’t need to develop into a day-long bummer. Do all or any of the things mentioned above, and remember…….a bad day doesn’t need to turn into a bad week. Tomorrow is another day.

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Denmark is Using Heat Produced by Data Center to Heat Resident’s Homes

Almost all the electricity a data center pulls off the grid comes back out as heat. A data center is, in effect, a very expensive radiator, but most of that warmth gets blown into the sky. The interesting question is what a facility could do with that heat if it decided not to throw it away. Meta’s site in Odense, Denmark, is one of the few places that's channeling its cooling heat straight into nearby homes. Water from the municipal district heating network runs through the facility's cooling units, absorbing that low-level warmth from the servers, and then moves to a nearby plant packed with ammonia heat pumps that raise the temperature further before distribution. Engineering firm Ramboll designed this recovery system for district heating operator Fjernvarme Fyn, lifting water temperatures to around 158º F. That range makes the water hot enough for household radiators once it re-enters the wider distribution network. This situation stands out against a backdrop of growing resistance to data centers elsewhere, particularly in the United States. Communities there have pushed back over land use, water consumption and strain on local electricity grids, but Denmark has proven that data center heat can actually benefit the surrounding community.

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