You know what would be handy? A place where say a half-billion people could record the activity of their daily lives, their highs and lows, where lots of other people could see it. That way, interested observers might be able to …
Family & Parenting
Post-Halloween Dental Advice: Kids Can Gorge on Candy
If your household is as sugared up as mine is in the aftermath of 90 minutes spent trick-or-treating Sunday night, here’s some unexpected wisdom — from a dentist, no less: Let the kids eat candy, and lots of it, all at once.
Analyzing Eggs and their Genetic Junk Offers Clues to Fertility
We know that egg + sperm = baby, but the nitty-gritty of how women get pregnant is largely a mystery. Now researchers at Brown University have discovered a new way to gather more information about egg cells: by sifting through …
Can an iPhone App Save Your Marriage?
Smartphones are very useful if you’re dating. They’re almost essential if you’re having an affair. They have handy apps for planning weddings and trying to conceive. They even offer sex tips. But can they help out on the real …
The Strange Link Between Winning Elections and Online Porn
A husband and wife research team may have discovered a novel way to make college kids care about politics. According to their research, online porn usage goes up in states that voted for winning candidates after elections.
Skip Your Parent-Teacher Conference, Go to Jail?
Show up for your child’s parent-teacher conference or go to jail: the choice could be yours in Michigan, if a county prosecutor has her way.
Study: Parent-Only Education Helps Children Lose Weight
Before you even think about shipping your zaftig not-so-little ones off to fat camp, consider a new study published in the journal Obesity: when nutrition and exercise education was given only to parents, their children shed …
Are You Fertile? Don’t Rely on a Drug-Store Fertility Test to Tell You
We women are accustomed to peeing on chemically-treated sticks to learn what our bodies are up to. Pregnancy tests administered in the confines of the master bathroom are more accurate than ever, but new research indicates that …
Explaining the Complicated Women + Math Formula
Why aren’t there more women math professors? Or engineering professors, or physics professors, or professors of computer science or economics? Why aren’t there more women tech entrepreneurs? If a field involves lots of numbers, …
Researchers Question When to Stop Trying With IVF
A team of researchers found that women’s success rates using in vitro fertilization (IVF) did not improve much after the first three cycles. About one in three women had a baby after their first attempt with IVF, and nearly half …
A Glimmer of Hope in a Bad-News Survey About Bullying
The bad news: half of all high school students, regardless of gender or type of school, say they have bullied someone in the past year, and 47% of students say they have been bullied in a way that seriously upset them. The good …
Debunking the Headlines: Falling in Love in 0.2 Sec.? We Don’t Think So
An assistant professor of psychology at Syracuse University wanted to know what love looked like in the brain. So she analyzed a collection of studies that focused on imaging the brain during romantic moments. What she found was …
Parents Lament the Hyland’s Teething Tablets Recall
Before Saturday’s recall of Hyland’s teething tablets, not many parents would likely take have taken issue with the homeopathic concoction encapsulated in those tiny pills that dissolve in baby’s mouth. Regardless of where …