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The Life of an Actress

Mariska Hargitay

You probably know Olivia Benson, the most recognizable face of Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit, but there are probably quite a few things you didn't know about <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/law-and-order-svu-actors-in-other-roles/lisa-waugh">Mariska Hargitay</a>, the actor behind the character. There's quite a bit of overlap between the actress and her character, and Hargitay herself admits her role on the show frequently meshes into her real life (and vice-versa). There's even an <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/identities1.html">academic paper</a> about how Hargitay's real life and fictional character converge in the zeitgeist. But even before she was ever associated with the long-running procedural, her life had its own share of challenges.Mariska Hargitay and her family members have faced their mortality&nbsp;more than once. The earliest tragedy in her life resulted in the implementation of a brand-new <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/jayne-mansfields-fatal-car-accident/kellie-kreiss">federal law</a>. She's worked alongside Joe Biden both in real life and as her television persona. And despite being one of the most well-known <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-serial-cop-dramas-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">cops on TV</a>, she has herself been incarcerated&nbsp;(and for the unlikeliest of offenses).&nbsp;If you've ever wondered what her life was like when she was young or how she got that facial scar, these stories about Mariska&nbsp;Hargitay will make you feel so much more for the actor and all the characters she saves on SVU.

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One of the most hotly contested topics in exercise is whether or not Crossfit is unhealthy for you. The Crossfit controversy is especially unpleasant because people on both sides of the discussion tend not to find any middle ground&mdash;it&#39;s either the one true way to exercise or a cultish fraud.

And there is actually some middle ground to be found here; there&#39;s nothing wrong with the core movements that make up Crossfit workouts (with one exception, which we will get to later), and reveling in a workout that&#39;s actually hard, in a communal atmosphere, is a perfectly viable kind of exercise. But it gets a lot less viable when that communal atmosphere is shaming you into doing <a href="http://optimumsportsperformance.com/blog/some-thoughts-on-crossfit/" target="_blank">dangerous lifts as rapidly as possible</a>, or struggling through workouts so far beyond your conditioning level that your internal organs are at risk. An experienced coach can minimize these dangers, but there is <a href="https://www.t-nation.com/training/crossfit-the-good-bad-and-the-ugly" target="_blank">no guarantee</a> that you&#39;ll have one, which means you may end up doing some of the most dangerous lifts there are with a coach who has no idea how to keep you safe.

Read on and decide for yourself: is Crossfit bad for you?

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Lists about airplanes, the best and worst parts of flying, and how to spend hours trapped in an aluminum tube.

Fly the Friendly Skies

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Some airport security tips are obvious: don't bring a bunch of liquids with you;&nbsp;don't wear really complicated footwear because you'll need two&nbsp;minutes to remove it; take off your belt - you get the idea. The single most effective way to get through security faster, <a href="https://www.tsa.gov/precheck">TSA Precheck</a>, is also pretty well-known, and it prevents you from having to worry about your mystery fluids or your complicated&nbsp;footwear at all. But maybe there are <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/tydka-airports/jacob-shelton">some things you still don't know about airports</a>, in general, and the security line, in particular. It's also always good to have a strong understanding of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/worst-people-at-the-airport/brian-gilmore">kinds of people you might encounter at the airport</a>.Some airport security tips aren't very&nbsp;obvious, such as getting through the line faster by having a boring hairstyle&nbsp;and being certain never to whistle (more on that later).&nbsp;And some airport security facts that used to be true are now obsolete. For example, you&nbsp;may remember some notable items that were initially banned, such as knitting needles, without being aware of the items that are now permitted, such as knitting needles. If you are so inclined, along with your knitting needles, you may also bring some falcons and a chainsaw. If that sounds like something you might be into, read on!

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Everything You Need to Know Before Going Through Airport Security

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The Science of Lust & Love

When you make that first instantaneous judgment about whether or not you like how someone looks, you're actually being influenced by a whole slew of things you don't realize you find attractive. At first glance, the basics of attractiveness seem pretty straightforward - humans like health and youth&nbsp;because they like reproductive fitness. Generally, humans also&nbsp;like sexual dimorphism (men with strong jaws and large brows; women with large eyes and youthful features). None of that should be too surprising. Humans are pretty predictable in this respect, and they really aren't much different from the lowliest bug who desperately wants to mate with whichever other bug would enable it to procreate the best.That's how it seems at first glance, anyway. Beneath the obvious stuff, a lot of other cues determine whether you like what you see when you look at someone's face, and we waste no time in making that determination. It takes about a tenth of a second for you to see a face and jump to a whole bunch of conclusions - whether the person is trustworthy or not, aggressive or not, and, obviously, whether he or she is attractive. But if you were to write down a list of the things that you assume you find attractive, and then read this list, you will probably not find much overlap. From the smell of someone's sweat to the amount of vegetables a person eats, there are tons of features we're attracted to without knowing it.

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'Tis the season for costumes, candy, and spooky movies to scare your pants off.

Tis the Spooky Season

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The history of Halloween seems to invite misinformation - the entire holiday is fraught with it. Many urban legends&nbsp;suggest that <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-historical-halloween-photos/mallory-weiler" target="_blank">children</a> are in danger of receiving <a href="http://didyouknowfacts.com/was-anyone-ever-actually-hurt-by-halloween-candy/" target="_blank">apples full of razor blades</a>;&nbsp;a vile Satanist may lurk&nbsp;behind every mailbox;&nbsp;and&nbsp;all unfamiliar-looking candy is likely ecstasy, apparently handed out by some poor soul overburdened with too much MDMA lying around. In reality, of course, <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/12914/brief-history-sick-people-tampering-halloween-candy" target="_blank">reported cases of&nbsp;tainted Halloween candy</a> are next to nothing, and the chances you will become<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/modern-human-sacrifice/christopher-shultz" target="_blank"> a victim of&nbsp;human sacrifice</a> is roughly the same as being slain by a meteorite.

Halloween in history is just as murky; it has a few separate origin points that all tie together, and its celebration often cobbles together local customs from preexisting holidays. It undoubtedly owes something to the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/pagan-halloween-traditions/april-a-taylor" target="_blank">Celtic festival of Samhain</a>, but it&#39;s hard to say with certainty what traditions come from where, especially since many of&nbsp;the only written records derived from the Romans. We can at least be sure that the early Halloween was not, as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-halloween/2014/10/24/b9b60800-5939-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html" target="_blank">was&nbsp;suggested</a>, a holiday when druids showed up to your house to&nbsp;kill your sheep unless you gave them money.

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