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WebIn 2025, South Korea's fertility rate was just 0.8 births per woman — up from the record-low 0.72 it recorded in 2023, the lowest ever registered for any country — and that modest rebound came only after hundreds of trillions of won in state incentives aimed at reversing the slide
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (508+ words) South Korea has spent close to 20 years and hundreds of trillions of won trying to get its citizens to have more children. Published July 15, 2026 South Korea has spent close to 20 years and hundreds of trillions of won trying to get…...
Brené Brown spent years studying vulnerability and found the barrier to being known is not the willingness to give — kind people give constantly — but the far harder act of letting someone see the parts you smooth over
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (911+ words) Brené Brown's two decades of shame and vulnerability research found something counterintuitive: kind people are rarely bad at giving. What blocks real intimacy is the far harder act of letting another person see the parts you routinely smooth over....
Pooling 71 studies of nearly 100,000 people, researchers found heavier short-video use was linked to poorer attention, weaker impulse control and more stress — a pattern that held across youths and adults
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (532+ words) Published July 11, 2026 In September 2025, the journal Psychological Bulletin published a large review of the research on short-form video, the endless feeds on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Its title reads almost like a diagnosis of the phone in your…...
Falling in love with a machine is no longer science fiction: about one in five American adults says they have chatted with an AI built to act as a romantic partner, and among young men it is nearly one in three
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (461+ words) Published July 9, 2026 About nineteen percent of American adults, in a survey of roughly 3,000 people released in February 2025 by the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, said they had chatted with an AI built to act like a romantic partner. Among…...
For most of history the worry was too many people, yet by 2050 some 155 of the world's 204 countries will not have enough babies to sustain their populations, a Lancet study projects — a quiet reversal of the fear that defined the last century
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (406+ words) Published July 9, 2026 For most of the last century, the fear was too many people. That fear has now flipped. In March 2024, The Lancet published a study forecasting that by 2050, 155 of the world’s 204 countries and territories will have birth rates too…...
Between the mid-teens and the mid-twenties, the human brain records an unusually rich collection of memories—not because it works better than before or after, but because life is packed with firsts that rarely happen again.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (167+ words) Ask most adults over forty to list the memories that come back to them unprompted, and a strange pattern shows up. Published July 7, 2026 A first is, structurally, unrepeatable. Firstness matters less for what it does at the moment of encoding,…...
The 'Mozart effect' began as a fifteen-minute bump on one spatial-reasoning test taken by 36 college students, then grew into a national belief that classical music makes babies smarter
1+ week, 3+ day ago (28+ words) The 1993 study was real. It measured a small, temporary gain on a single spatial task in adults. Almost everything the phrase came to mean was added afterward....
Researchers compared 5,556 people across 10 nations and found that parents tended to report a little more meaning and purpose in life — though their day-to-day happiness looked virtually the same as non-parents
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Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter in late 2010 that his own children had not used the iPad, and that he limited technology at home, even as the tablet he had unveiled in San Francisco months earlier was on its way to selling hundreds of millions
2+ week, 1+ day ago (706+ words) Published July 1, 2026 In a phone call in late 2010, New York Times reporter Nick Bilton asked Steve Jobs a simple question about the iPad, the tablet Jobs had unveiled on a San Francisco stage roughly nine months earlier: surely his children…...
In a Japanese preschool, the shoes line up by themselves, the snack bowls sit on a low shelf a four-year-old can reach, and a child walks in already knowing what to do because the room, and not the adult, has quietly done the teaching
2+ week, 1+ day ago (681+ words) The Japanese concept of shitsuke treats discipline as a property of the environment rather than a corrective act — the room, the routine, and the height of the shelves do the teaching that Western parenting tries to deliver through consequences....