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Reversible, reliable, safe. Pill, injection, non-surgical procedure. Until recently, these goals have seemed uniformly out of reach. But researchers just unveiled a promising new male oral contraceptive at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans. The pill, called 11-beta-MNTDC, ostensibly prevents fertility with progestin while keeping libido up with testosterone. It is far from pharmacy shelves and may never make it through the rigorous FDA approval process, but 11-beta is as far as we’ve come on male birth control to date....

“Sexual satisfaction was positively associated with infidelity suggesting that people who were more satisfied with their sex were more likely to engage in infidelity,” study co-author Andrea Meltzer, an assistant professor of psychology at Florida State University says. “Notably, this effect did not differ across men and women.” Initially, Meltzer and her team were just looking to broadly determine infidelity predictors. To accomplish this, the researchers followed 233 newlywed couples for 3....

Yes, that means that we basically agree on something. Stop the presses. The Medicaid expansions will be a particular relief to parents who rely on employers to cover children. Where once they might have stayed in terrible jobs to keep coverage, they now have a safety net that frees them a low-key employment hostage situation. But the expansions will also mean healthier kids. Consider data from the national Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which looks at American healthcare coverage, which found that children are 29 percent more likely to receive well-child visits when parents are enrolled in Medicaid....

for the COVID vaccineThe vaccines are safe, highly effective, and backed by science. But not everyone is rushing to schedule their appointments the way they should. Men, to lump together one large demographic, are showing hesitancy to getting vaccinated. That’s an issue for their own health and the health of their families and communities. In other words, their inaction puts everyone else at risk of the COVID-19 pandemic.Of course, many men have been getting vaccinated....

Mindy appeared on the cover of The Wellness Issue of Marie Claire, where she talked about her “guiding principles,” which frame the decisions she makes as a parent in the public eye. Mindy is a mama to two kids, 4-year-old Katherine “Kit” Swati and soon-to-be-2-year-old Spencer Avu. Their privacy is paramount to her. Two things she’s majorly private about are how she conceived her kids — and posting them on social media....

Kellie is mom to 3-year-old Carson, who went viral after she shared a video of a harmless prank she played on her toddler at lunchtime. In the video, Carson waits for lunch at his Paw Patrol table. The voice-over plays, “give your kid an empty plate and see how they react,” as Kellie places an empty plate and fork in front of him. This is a challenge that’s been floating around TikTok for a bit, but no one was ready for Carson....

“My daughter’s bus driver nearly killed her on the first day of kindergarten so here’s a PSA for all parents of young bus riders. This happened today,” Coley wrote. Coley’s daughter suffers from a developmental delay that causes weak muscle tone around her knees and ankles. Moreover, the rare syndrome makes it difficult for her to speak loudly and clearly over the other kids. Her daughter didn’t end up getting off of the bus at school, and instead, was locked inside the bus while it was parked inside the 90-degree depot....

Think of Monkii Bars not as a delicious ice cream treat as the name might suggest, but as an updated version of the classic resistance bands that your parents use to connect to the door knob in the family room. It’s the same concept, although in this case you’re talking about a pair of aerospace-grade aluminum tubes that attach to a piece of 18-foot nylon webbing that attaches to the door using a special case (that also holds your smartphone....

It’s a misconception that, according to the survey, transcends class, race, and language. Barely eight percent of white parents and eight African American parents rated their children’s academic achievements “below average”, and that figure only rose slightly among Hispanic parents, 11 percent of whom rated their children academically below average. It seems we all have unrealistic expectations—or at least unrealistic ideas about what the average student looks like. There is hope, however, for (slightly delusional) parents....

On the adorable end, it was amazing to know how observant my 5-year-old is. Yes, in fact, I do like to wear caps. I do “love to eat coffee.” I do always laugh when I play with him. But, asked to complete the sentence, “His superpower is…,” my son chose “working.” That did not make me feel awesome. Why did my superpower have to be “working?” Why didn’t he pick “love” or “playing music” or “building Legos”?...

By the time I came along, my father was 59. A lot of his older friends like Henry Hathaway, John Ford, Jimmy Stewart, and Maureen O’Hara had already passed away. I think it was hard for him to work with the younger actors. He was used to working with craftsmen like them and if someone wasn’t up to par, it was like going into a craftsmen shop and moving his tools around....

The call came in: ‘Hi, this is Principal so-and-so…we’ve had a problem with your son. He’s a bully.’ It’s definitely not the worst call a dad can get from his son’s school, but it’s still pretty awful. It was a little more diplomatic than that, but you get the idea. My son is in fourth grade. He’s a bigger kid. Not fat, but more Fortnite and less football, if that makes sense....

But why is showering so bad? According to Hamblin, when we grab our favorite lavender-scented-scrubby-soap and rub it all over our stinking selves, we’re actually destroying a microbial universe that exists on the surface of our skin. When we do that, per Hamblin, we temporarily “alter the microscopic populations,” either by getting rid of them altogether or getting rid of the resources that help them thrive. That matters because microbiomes, as the population of microbes that live on the skin and in the gut are called, are very important for human beings: scientists have long maintained that microbiomes help maintain immunity, digestion, and can even regulate your mood....

Betrayal at Cloud City is a monster of a set, clocking in at 2,812 pieces, reminiscent of the similarly detailed and massive Millennium Falcon and Death Star sets. The four feet square, six-inch-tall set is the first in the Star Wars Master Builder series, a new classification that hopefully means plenty of other epic Star Wars sets are on the way. The set is divided into four different sections, each the setting for specific scenes in Empire....

PAW Patrol: Jet To The Rescue is a straight to DVD release from Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment and the viewer is up for quite the adventure. The pups find themselves in a sticky situation when the gem of Barkingburg, a levitation device, was stolen by Duke of Flappington. The Duke, of course, uses this gem for his own shenanigans, and it’s up to the pups to turn the chaos into order once again....

Experts suspect that the mother probably passed the virus to her children before birth, through the placenta. “It would be impossible for them to have been infected at the moment of birth,” said State Health Secretary Mónica Liliana Rangel Martínez. Health officials are investigating the case, which is especially unusual because it is the first time newborns of a multiple-birth have tested positive, at least, according to the BBC. Though rare, there are several reported cases of newborns with COVID-19....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Sleep Researchers have found most groups of people that still practice foraging lifestyles, like the Hadza population in Tanzania, have a family bed. Dad, mom, and the kids all sleep together, not only in one room, but in the same bed. “The type of bed varies — a Tatami mat, an impala skin — it depends on where you are in the world, but it’s otherwise consistent,” says Crittenden....

What Is the Geminid Meteor Shower? NASA has described it as “one of the best and most reliable annual meteor showers” and it’s not hard to see why. The Geminid Meteor Shower may not be as showy as some of the others but it is extremely consistent, showing up around mid-December every year, with approximately 100-120 meteors per hour appearing during its peak. And as the name suggests, most of the meteors will appear in the area around the Gemini constellation....

Who Is Getting Refund Checks For Student Loan Payments? Some borrowers took advantage of the period of zero percent interest and paid on their loans to help decrease their principal balances. For many, especially those borrowers who paid their loans in full, those payments turned into frustration after President Biden announced his plan to forgive $10,000 in federally held student loan debt and $20,000 for those who received a Pell Grant below specific income levels....