What's More Important: How Food Looks? Or How It Tastes?
Around 60 million tons of produce, worth about $160 billion, is wasted, ...—a third of all foodstuffs, though experts and farmers tell the Guardian the real figure is closer to half of all foodstuf...
The First Ghostbuster Was a Woman
Given the controversy over Paul Feig’s decision to remake Ghostbusters with an all-woman cast, one might be fooled into thinking that female ghostbusters are a shocking... The original lady ghostb...
Swift Playgrounds by Apple Will Help Kids Learn to Code
The new Swift Playgrounds app for iPad is the next step on Apple's path towards a new breed of computer programming. Due to arrive in the App Store this fall, the app is an educational tool. Throu...
Why Some Stay-at-Home Dads are Depressed
In the past two decades or so, the number of stay-at-home dads has risen—from just over 1 million in 1989 to 2 million in 2012, according to the Pew Research Center. We've also become more visible ...
7 Powerful Life Lessons Girls Can Learn From Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is not only the Greatest of All Time, but also the perfect role model for a strong, capable, and change making girl.
Getting this kid to give up the bottle is going to be a little like Custer's Last Stand with a side of spilled milk.
Why Scientists Feel Dinosaurs Did NOT Roar
Do you hear that sound? It’s 65 million years ago and there’s a dinosaur calling out through the wilds. But it’s not a roar. Instead new research says that sound would probably be better described ...
What Has Happened to Journalism and The Truth in A Digital Age
Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism ....
7 Lessons From a One-Year-Old on How to be a Better Human
Maybe it only takes one year to figure out what life is all about. The trick is to keep those lessons with you.
When Fear is More Limiting Than a Wheelchair
Unless he's given the space to try, my son will learn to be handicapped by his mind, not his body. And that's not the life I want him to have.
10 Summer Camps Parents Really Need Right About Now
Oh, summer, how we love you! Blue skies, long days, fireflies, swimming, s'mores. And, of course, deliriously happy kids! Well, mostly happy kids. Um. Sort of happy kids. Ok fine. Kinda bratty ki...
How to Prepare an Older Sibling for Bringing Home a New Baby
How do you gently tell your only kid that it's time to make room for a new baby? Just like this.
11 Personal Items You're Going to Want Postpartum That No One Seems to Mention
Do your postpartum self a favor and stock up on these must-haves now.
1 Reason Not to Play With Your Zipper Near a wedge-tailed Eagle
The youngster, said to be between six and eight, had been fiddling with the zipper of his jacket when the bird tried to pick him up "like a small animal" "For some reason the wedge-tailed Eagle di...
Camps say Care Packages are way out of Control
Lauren and Mark Bernstein, owners and directors of Camp Walden New York, were early adopters. When they bought the camp, located in Diamond Point, N.Y., 12 years ago, a no-package policy felt good ...
Parents Fear Pokemon is bad for Kids.
In 1999, when the first Pokémon movie was released in the U.S., TIME featured the fad in a cover story. And, though the magazine took pains to explain the craze to curious readers unfamiliar with t...
Family Support Helpful With Loved Ones With Diabetes Study Says
Better outcomes may be possible if family members receive support to help their loved ones with diabetes, according to the DAWN2 study, with analysis led by a Penn State College of Medicine researc...
Why We Talk About Consent With our Toddlers
It's never too early to teach kids about ownership of their bodies and how to respect the bodies of others. In fact, the sooner, the better.
When 'Stay-at-Home Mom' is a Dream Too Small
Staying home to raise a family is a noble job. But pursuing dreams and creative endeavors can't always take a back seat.
The Gift of No Mirrors: On Camping With My Daughters
Looking in the mirror, we search for flaws. Seek out our beauty and often, in our own minds come up short. Nature offers a welcome reprieve.
How Tracking When My Baby Ate Made Me a Better Mom
It may sound a little neurotic, but if a baby tracking app makes life as a new parent easier, I'm going all in.
Parents in the US Struggling to Find Happiness Compared to Others
For years, social scientists have known that nonparents are happier than parents. Study after study has confirmed the troubling findingthat having kids makes you less happy than your child-free pe...
Why People Need More Fruit and Vegtables
University of Warwick research indicates that eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people's later happiness levels. The researchers concluded that people who changed from alm...
What Our Kids Play with-NEEDED New Focus on Regulatory Groups
In a new report, dozens of scientists, health practitioners and children's health advocates are calling for renewed attention to the growing evidence that many common and widely available chemicals...