imho if you're going to make freedom- and dignity-based arguments against carseat recommendations, you cannot say that the recommenders should be JAILED

It's me & baby in the wild!

Recently had my first experience emailing an academic for a copy of their paper that I couldn't find any other way. I'm grateful to them for their kind reply....... and EXTREMELY grateful to Alexandra Elbakyan for not needing to do this every day, omg, can you IMAGINE

what did they mean by this

Okay but like -- I don't take melatonin to increase my total lifetime sleepiness, I use it for better control of *when* I am sleepy! The same can be true of caffeine and awakeness

Everyone with more kids than me is crazy for taking that on, everyone with fewer kids than me is crazy for missing out, and people with the same number of kids as me know how crazy it is. Hope that clears things up!

The Zoom calls and empathy ratings are new, lol, but hasn't highschool debate always essentially had this problem? It's designed so that the team that's better at debating wins. Like, that's literally the goal. If it was a truthseeking process that wouldn't be a fair competition!

It's easy to remember which elements have atomic numbers 6 through 9, because in middle school my friends and I came up with the non-joke "Why is carbon afraid of nitrogen?" "Because nitrogen oxygen fluorine!"

DMV pop quiz: You have moved from one state to another, and you want a new driver's license issued by your new state. What would you like to do today?

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: A. A. Milne, E.B. White, Margaret Wise Brown, Eric Carle, Barbara Cooney, the Brothers Grimm, Gertrude Chandler Warren, Robert McCloskey, Marguerite Henry

Checking in on the history of IV therapy