Blog Posts by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

Martha Payne, 9-year-old food critic and school lunch reformer. (Rex Photos/AP)Jamie Oliver and Michelle Obama may be commanders of a healthy school lunch revolution. But a 9-year-old girl is on the front lines.

A Scottish grade school student named Martha Payne has launched her own revolution in school lunch reform. It all started with a simple idea. What if food critics reviewed school lunches? Cafeterias would probably do a lot more to satisfy their customers.

First Lady makes big changes to school lunches.

That's what Martha discovered two weeks ago, when she started the blog NeverSeconds, a daily review of her flimsy cafeteria lunches.

With help from her dad, Dave, the Argyle-based student, photographed her sparse lunch tray daily and offered a Zagat-style rating system based on the following criteria: food-o-meter (or overall taste), mouthfuls (or portions), health, courses and pieces of hair. So far there's been one or two hairs on her lunch tray, but not much else.

One of the first lunches she reviewed included a dried-out rectangular piece of pizza,

(Facebook)They may have different friends and different interests but nothing brings high school students together like alphabetical order.

For the eight students at a California high school with the same last name-Nguyen- it was obvious their wallet-size snapshots would be sharing the same yearbook page.

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So instead of exerting their individuality with the standard Grateful Dead quote and a prom-worthy up-do, they decided to join forces for the ultimate prank. Alexandra, Angela, Angelica, Elizabeth, Emily, Isabella, Madeline and Vi Nguyen all wore the same black off-shoulder dresses and the same hairstyles. Then they went for the win.

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Eschewing the optional yearbook one-liner under each of their photos, they divided up two sentences that made fellow students and administrators think twice before making any stereotypical assumptions. Altogether, the words under the Nguyen girls' eight pictures read: "We know

Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only one who's had a big week. On Monday, Priscilla Chan, the longtime partner of the 28-year-old Facebook founder-earned her medical degree from the top institution in the country, just days after inspiring a revolution in organ donor access. Also: her boyfriend just turned his first job into $19 billion dollars. Am I forgetting anything? Yes: They got married.

On Saturday, a small group of friends and family expecting to attend a party for Chan's graduation were surprised by an impromptu wedding in the backyard of their $7 million Palo Alto home. The couple had been secretly planning the event for months, on top of all the other projects on their plates. Zuckerberg even found time to design the ruby ring for his bride.

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So far it's been a good month for Priscilla, the Harvard alum who met Zuckerberg at a campus frat party almost a decade ago. On May 14, while the tech world marked Zuckerberg's 28th birthday, Chan was

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Life Ball, Vienna's annual extreme costume party benefiting AIDS activism, kicked off this morning when a plane from New York packed with people who look like this touched down in Austria ready to party, raise awareness and scare the living sh-- out of children.
Oh well, it's for a good cause. Play on red dragon temptress!

It's prom season for international celebrities, or as they like to call it the Cannes International Film Festival. The weeklong cinematic fete makes the Oscar red carpet look like a backyard barbecue. This week, in Southern France, you can wear a ball gown with a 6-foot trail and still be underdressed. To deal with this predicament, stars (and wannabe stars) go to extremes to compensate. It isn't always pretty.

Disco was more than a passing fad, it was the era of the female rock star. Never before had so many solo women singers challenged music's all-boys club. It took an epic vocal range, thick skin and a passion for glamour and Donna Summer had it all. When the 63-year-old legendary disco queen lost her battle to cancer this week, the music industry lost a female force to be reckoned with, fashion lost an iconic risk-taker and the world lost a woman who could make anyone hit the dance floor. -Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

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Ever wonder what happened to Bachelors of season past? I do. Lorenzo Borghese, rather Prince Lorenzo Borghese of Italy by way of New Jersey by way of Bachelor Season 9, was spotted alive and well yesterday. Since his search for love ended, he's written a historical romance novel, and continues to sell high-end doggy products. Now based in New York City, he also enjoys attending events like Monday's launch of a new line of Hello Kitty-themed lingerie. With that in mind, we're going to assume he's still looking for love.

In "Drive," Ryan Gosling plays a murderous stuntmen that ovulating women want to procreate with. (Sony Pictures)[Every Wednesday, Shine tackles one of life's little mysteries. Got a burning question you want answered? Tweet us @yahooshine #burningquestions or leave it in the comments below.]

It's a simple question, and one neither sex has been able to answer. When given the choice between a perfectly decent dude and a guy who will twist our ventricles into a vice, we tend to go for option B. Even if we've already "learned from our mistakes" we're still suckers for the sadist next door. ("50 Shades of Gray" isn't a bestseller because of the writing.)

Finally, some answers! According to a new report published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, it's all ovulation's fault. "Under the hormonal influence of ovulation, women delude themselves into thinking that the sexy bad boys will become devoted partners and better dads," writes Kristina Durante, a researcher on University of Texas study.

If men think with their man-parts, women think with their cycles. That's when we all make bad