What's got my attention this week #40

Links, recs and whole bunch of things to get you through the weekend

It’s nearly a week now since Iris Apfel died, aged 102 and a half, but I couldn’t let it pass unremarked. What a legend she was. And here’s a lovely obituary.

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• “Going for Botox with my 82-year-old mother.”
• “I’m amputating you!” Frida Kahlo writes to Diego Rivera.
• The guilt is coming from inside the house! How much do I love

Sarah Knight

• Screens are ruining us. So what can we do about it, asks

Jill Filipovic

• The truth about the marriagability gap.
• Women write sentimental stories about love, men write important books.... and other such nonsense.
• Why giving up makeup was a “healing experience” for Pamela Anderson.
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Poorna Bell

on the dangers of defaulting finance stuff to men.
• The battle to overthrow the Tampax empire.
• Why are we so surprised when “old” people do “young” things?
• Kate Muir on the …