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Whether you’re considering a soft-sided gear hauler or a hard sided roller, you’ll notice a pretty significant price spread. More expensive bags may have better zippers and fabric, so they’ll hold up to use and abuse longer. Before you buy, consider where you’ll travel. Is it a business trip? A bigger expedition? You may not need a 110 liter bag if you’ll be staying at a downtown hotel. But if you’re going on a weeks-long trip, you’ll need a bag that can survive it....

4. Ring-a-levio This game is technically not hide and seek, but it combines the basic tenets of hide and seek and capture the flag. It originated in New York City. You hide. Someone else seeks. It’d be better to play with a big group of people for this game. We recommend that you play outside as well. To play, divide your group into two teams. One team gets time to hide, then the other team starts seeking....

It’s a fun game, but to understand which traits a child will inherit is extraordinarily hard to answer. Here’s a bit of the knowns and unknowns behind genetic inheritance, and what really belongs to whom. Gene Genie To understand how this works, science goes well past the cellular level. Yes, cells are what build the physical body and keep it working. However, those construction orders to build the man’s nose or the woman’s hair is held in a chemical called deoxyribonucleic acid, known to everyone as DNA....

“Because men are taught more to display less emotion, the suppression of emotions leads to explosions,” among other issues, psychotherapist Rose Lawrence told Fatherly. “The list is quite extensive because everyone can experience physical symptoms in different parts of their body.” Here’s what happens when you suppress your emotions. Your Stomach Twists Itself Into Knots The chronic stress that comes from unresolved emotions can trigger your sympathetic nervous system’s fight or flight response, according to research from Harvard Medical School....

In case you missed this 1991 book, Maus tells the story of Jews fleeing the Holocaust during World War II. Artist and writer Art Spiegelman creatively rendered the Jews in the story as mice and some of the Nazis as cats. Versions of Maus were serialized in 1981 before the entire story was collected in book form in 1991. Because of the hyperbolic technique of rendering characters as animals, the power of Maus is clear from one glance: For tweens and teens, this memoir of the Holocaust is potentially more powerful than a straightforward documentary....

Like any great lie, there are kernels of truth to be found in the story of Pepe Le Pew being removed from Space Jam for being problematic. It is true that the character had a scene in the Space Jam sequel that did end up being cut from the film. And it is also true there was a recent New York Times article where Charles M. Blow briefly criticized the character in passing, arguing that Pepe Le Pew’s entire schtick of mercilessly and aggressively hitting on Penelope Pussycat “normalized rape culture....

However, handy as they are, these devices have several downsides. They could lead a preschooler to scream for more screen time instead of playing make-believe, for instance, or hinder a middle-schooler’s ability to read other people’s emotions. And then there is the fact that they can severely mess with kids’ sleep. Tablets, TVs, computers, and cellphones all emit blue light, which has been proven to disrupt sleep. Blue light interferes with the body’s natural sleep/wake cycle, called the circadian rhythm, by suppressing production of melatonin, the hormone that helps the body and brain wind down....

“We found if anything, teen marijuana is actually going down in states that legalized for recreational purposes,” says Mark Anderson, Ph.D., an economist at Montana State University who studies teen marijuana use. Anderson’s team analyzed survey data from more than 1.4 million high school students. They found that after a state made recreational weed legal, teenagers had an eight percent decrease in the odds of using pot in the past 30 days and a nine percent decrease in frequent use, according to a 2019 study published in JAMA Pediatrics....

Why this sherpa jacket? Because you get a nylon wind guard on the zipper placket, reinforced neck hem for a proper collar fold, and zippered hand pockets for added warmth. James Brand makes the most gorgeous EDC we’ve ever used. This serrated knife is no exception. It’s 6.5 inches in overall length, and has titanium frame-lock construction. The knife’s S35vn stainless steel blade holds an edge and will last him forever....

But what’s worse is that in the surges of cases before this moment, there was usually an epicenter, or a close-knit area, of one community. Right now, per the media company, a series of graphs reveals this third wave is “far more geographically dispersed than what the country saw in the spring or summer.” From farm town to big city, every county is wracked with COVID-19, and more and more Americans are contracting the deadly virus....

I was a young parent once, years ago, and I cared about what my kids watched. I turned on PBS Kids and delighted over all the wonderful information, art, and science my little sponge was soaking up. We knew each episode of Sesame Street by heart, mused about the Dinosaur Train family dynamics, and laughed when our little girl said she was “cross” about something, quoting Thomas and Friends. Time wore me down though and I’ve gotten laxer....

WalletHub wanted to find out which cities are experiencing inflation’s rise the most keenly. So, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), WalletHub compared 23 Metropolitan Statistical Areas across two key metrics involving the Consumer Price Index, an index used to measure inflation. “We compared the Consumer Price Index for the latest month for which BLS data is available to two months prior and one year prior to get a snapshot of how inflation has changed in the short and long term,” the site explains....

A while back, a Japanese company announced it would be releasing a “life-sized” (i.e. fictional robot’s estimated size), remote-controlled R2-D2 mini-fridge that could be putzing around your house making weird robot sounds and delivering you cold drinks while you re-watched every Star Wars movie with the kids. Despite the gadget’s obvious appeal to fans of the film franchise, 2 big questions went unanswered: First, why would a droid used to helping Jedis save the universe debase itself by working as a glorified waiter?...

“This is not a joke. It’s not something that gets solved with a song,” says the distinctly un-smarmy and very eloquent actor, who is currently playing a very smarmy mayor on the CBS series Tommy. “I wonder to myself, ‘How have you lost the plot on this?’ This disconnect happens. People become so insulated and insular.” Sadoski is riding out the Covid-19 pandemic in upstate New York, where he’s looking after his daughter, 3, his horses, and his chickens....

Sadly, dePaola died this week at the age of 85. He wrote and illustrated over 200 books, but it’s his picture book about a “Grandma Witch” who makes a pot of magic and nearly apocalyptic pasta noodles that we’ll all remember. There are a lot of reasons to love DePaola’s oeuvre, but for kids like me, he’ll always be the guy who created Strega Nona and immediately made cooking seem awesome and terrifying at the same time....

The two portable smokers are named the Scout and the Ranger. The Scout is the cheaper and simpler of the two. It allows you to set the temperature in 25-degree increments using a simple knob. An LCD screen lets you know the current temperature inside the grill. The Ranger, meanwhile, offers greater temperature control (5-degree increments) and adds some more bells and whistles. A built-in timer reminds you to sauce your meat and check on your food, while Keep Warm Mode allows you to eat when you’d like, not just when your food happens to be ready....

But one day the levee will breach. The water will start to rise. A year after Donald Trump was elected president, despite the fact that he bragged about grabbing women by their genitalia, my daughter went to a four-hour, detailed sex ed class. She is four years younger than an Alabama woman was when Roy Moore allegedly sexually assaulted her. Right now, my daughter’s body is still her own. Soon it will change, and the world at large will attempt to make a claim on it....

Well, what does that mean? It means that unemployment benefits are going to end a whole week earlier than lawmakers expected them to — and it means that people on unemployment right now are going to get screwed at the drive through, not least of which because they’ll have $600 short in their monthly budget, but also because after this money expires, there’s little evidence to suggest that Congress will actually scramble to help out the people they are supposed to serve....

Researchers tested 36 babies born to a parent who was vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. They found that a whopping 100 percent of those newborns had high levels of antibodies from the vaccine. “We didn’t anticipate that. We expected to see more variability,” Ashley Roman, MD, an obstetrician at NYU Langone Health System and co-author of the study, told Bloomberg. Roman’s team tested umbilical cord blood for two types of antibodies at birth....

RELATED: The Best Wearable Tech to Help Keep Track Of And Play With Your Kids VersaMe Starling Tracker is new piece of wearable tech for your kid that was developed by a team of Stanford grads, based on a bunch of Stanford research (Go Cardinal!), which found that 82 percent of brain development happens in the first 1,000 days of a kid’s life. Starling aims to help you track your kid’s language development by listening to (but never recording) what’s going in their one ear and out the other all day long....