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The truth about why we stopped having babies

The stats don’t lie: around the world, people are having fewer children. With fears looming around an increasingly ageing population, Helen Coffey takes a deep dive into why parenthood lost its appeal

The Independent UK

Should I have children? Why society's idealisation of motherhood benefits no one

Mothers – and non-mothers. Our language creates the falsehood that being with a child is a norm. Words like childless or childfree firmly place the person without a child as the one lacking. Women who decide not to have children are marked as outsiders by our social and cultural norms.

The Conversation

‘It’s about owning your power!’ How Frozen changed a generation of girls. And boys. And Hollywood …

It’s 10 years since a Disney princess first belted out Let It Go, to a chorus of millions of children struggling with their emotions and their place in the world. And the echoes haven’t stopped

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In brief: One Blood; Extinctions; Hysterical – reviews

Black American women navigate the decades in a powerful family saga; a palaeontologist explores Earth’s mass extinctions; and a behavioural scientist explains the gendering of emotion

The Guardian - UK

AI can process more information than humans – so will it stop us repeating our mistakes?

It is a cliche that not knowing history makes one repeat it. As many people have also pointed out, the only thing we learn from history is that we rarely learn anything from history. People engage in land wars in Asia over and over. They repeat the same dating mistakes,…

The Conversation

How the brain stops us learning from our mistakes – and what to do about it

You learn from your mistakes. At least, most of us have been told so. But science shows that we often fail to learn from past errors. Instead, we are likely to keep repeating the same mistakes.

The Conversation

Morning mail: medicinal cannabis boom, Brazil’s Bolsonaro on the brink, Indonesian stadium disaster

Monday: Some patients are taking cannabis for medical conditions when there is little evidence it’s effective, experts say. Plus: why a scream might be good for you

The Guardian - AU

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Carry on screaming: why letting it all out, especially for women, can make you calmer and happier

Women are always being told to control their emotions, but releasing them is far more important. Behavioural scientist Pragya Agarwal testifies that there’s nothing like a good scream

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Fairy Tale by Stephen King and Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris.

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