Amy Denet Deal on Finding and Supporting Her Diné CommunityOn coming home to and lifting up her Diné community.
My Tweens & Teens Gave Me Their Holiday Wish Lists—These Are the Trendy Gifts I’m BuyingMy tweens and teens gave me their holiday wish lists, which include everything from hair wax sticks to Ugg boots, Stanley cups, and more, starting at just $9.
26 Women Get Real About Freezing Their EggsMore people than ever are signing on — and paying up — for the fertility-preserving procedure. Here is what it’s actually like.
Conflicted About Kids’ Screen Time? 4 Exceptions Our Household MakesCommentary: I’m a tech reporter who’s watched parents play the screen time shame game for years. Here’s where our family landed.
Unspoken Peer Pressure: The Silent Struggle of Adolescence and How to Overcome ItEvery individual is like a jewel that reflects different shades, but whose worth is immeasurable.
Into the Phones of TeensAbout midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of Arizona freshman named Sydney—as she exercises on an elliptical machine at t
I Found the Lazy Secret to Doubling My Savings in 12 MonthsAlmost one year ago, I moved $1,000 to a high-yield savings account and set up regular automated transfers from my checking account. My goal was to double my savings before the end of 2024 without having to budget or make major sacrifices. Today, I'm happy to report I've met my goal.
What Pediatricians Always Pack In Their Suitcase For Their KidsTraveling with children can be daunting, but child health experts prioritize these essentials.
Bridging The Gap To Wisdom: Metacognition As The Next Frontier For AIIn today’s column, I examine the pursuit of an elusive element that is believed to be crucial for the further advancement of AI. What might that element be? Specifically, machine metacognition.
Emily Oster and the Optimization of ParentingWhat gets lost when we approach pregnancy and raising children through data? In February of 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidance that counseled all reproductive-age women who were not using contraception to abstain from drinking just in case they got pregnant.
Five structural-biology questions that still challenge AIAlena Khmelinskaia wants designing bespoke proteins to be as simple as ordering a meal. Picture a vending machine, she says, which any researcher could use to specify their desired protein’s function, size, location, partners and other characteristics.
A Picture Is Worth 4.6 TerabitsClark Johnson says he has wanted to be a scientist ever since he was 3. At age 8, he got bored with a telegraph-building kit he received as a gift and repurposed it into a telephone.
Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to BeIn the late months of 1859, if you had walked down the rue Lamartine in Paris on a chilly autumn evening, you might have overheard Henri Bergson’s father, Michal Bergson, gently playing one of his own compositions to his newborn son—perhaps a mazurka inspired by his old teacher Frédéric Chopin
These are the top apps Gen Z young adults downloaded this yearIt’s clear that Gen Z has an influence on app consumption. Known as the “mobile-first generation,” they make up about 40% of all mobile users worldwide.
This Week’s Sex Diary: The Man Who’s Intimidated by the Women He’s Meeting on the AppsEvery week, columnist Alyssa Shelasky asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives. The Cut’s Sex Diaries column, first published in 2007, was the basis of a 2022 HBO series. 8 a.m. It’s my first day at a new job, and my first week living on my own in New York.