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Sep 12
In a randomized trial of 124 anxious children aged 7 to 14, treating only the parents by reducing how much they…
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Sep 11
Most of what forms a child looks nothing like a decision
Rachel Santos
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Sep 11
Thirty-six and a half seconds after Apollo 12 left the pad on 14 November 1969, lightning travelled through the Saturn…
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Sep 10
Retirement is usually described as the moment purpose disappears
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Sep 9
Things Grandparents Do That Give Children Their Happiest Memories
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Sep 8
She wants the space, he wants a hug
Rachel Santos
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Sep 8
When you have a kid you need to be more mature, but not in the way most people mean
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Sep 7
In 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars from a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, aimed at a cluster 25,000…
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Sep 3
Mariner 1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 5:21am on 22 July 1962 carrying no camera
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Sep 3
Children who nap after learning a new skill retain roughly ten percent more of it the next day than children kept…
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Sep 3
The hardest part of watching a parent age isn't the physical decline, it's the role reversal nobody trained you for and…
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Sep 2
In the 1840s at Vienna General Hospital, women delivered by doctors died of childbed fever at more than twice the rate…
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Aug 31
What looks like your mother repeating the same story for the fourth time isn't memory failing, sometimes it's her…
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Aug 31
What Gen X kids did on their own was real, but the lesson is not the one nostalgia wants to draw
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Aug 31
What parents should never say to their kids isn't really about the words, and repair matters more than perfection
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Aug 31
Can a checklist tell you your childhood wasn't really happy? Why the honest answer needs a lot more care
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Aug 30
What overprotective parenting does to adults, and the twist most trait lists get wrong
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Aug 30
Reading is a pleasure like ice cream, except it feeds you rather than just sweetening the moment
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Aug 29
The tiny ghost galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are among the oldest and most pristine in the universe, and Hubble…
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Aug 28
Being a great father and a great husband call on the same character, used in two very different shapes
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