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We often assume humanity will keep multiplying, but a UN forecast suggests our numbers will likely peak near 10. 3 billion in the mid-2080s, then shrink " because women now average about one child fewer than in 1990
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A UN survey of 14, 000 adults suggests people aren't simply choosing smaller families " one in five expect fewer children than they want, blocked less by a rejection of parenthood than by cost, insecure work and fear of the future
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Quote by Bill Nye: "There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind."
2+ week, 1+ day ago (409+ words) Bill "the Science Guy" Nye said this somewhere across the forty years of public work he has been performing, and the standard absorption tends to receive it as a piece of generic science-advocacy boilerplate, the kind" By Daniel Moran " Editorial…...
Women's sense of smell is roughly 50% more sensitive than men's on average, and the gap widens during pregnancy to a degree that some evolutionary biologists think is a defence mechanism for the fetus
3+ week, 1+ day ago (180+ words) The claim that women possess a sharper sense of smell than men is one of those folk observations that turns out to be approximately correct, repeatedly replicated, and yet rarely explained with any mechanical honesty. By Space Daily Editorial Team…...
Life lessons from the 1960s and 70s that are almost non-existent in 2026
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Psychology says parents who can't stop helping their adult children aren't being loving " they're unconsciously protecting themselves from the terror of becoming unnecessary
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Psychology says kids who grew up in the 1960s and '70s learned a version of emotional resilience that modern parenting has accidentally engineered out of an entire generation
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The generation that grew up in the 1960s and 70s didn't expect life to be fair - and that single adjustment may be why so many of them find a kind of ease in later life
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People who grew up in the 60s or 70s are often praised by their adult children as having been "tough" " and the painful late-life recognition is that toughness was the family's word for a child who had figured out how to survive the absence of a curious adult, and the praise that arrives now is the same praise that was used at six to keep the child from asking for what they actually needed
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I'm 52 and last month I realized I've spent twenty years telling people "I never wanted kids" with such conviction that I've started to forget I'm not sure that was ever actually true, or if it was just the story I needed to survive the path I ended up on
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