Tag: Babies

Have you ever been in such a long argument with someone that you forgot what you were arguing about in the first place? For centuries, theists and atheists have been arguing about whether God exists, and as late as the atheist Anthony Flew’s contention in 1976 about the logical “presu...

Afew weeks ago, a debate broke out on Twitter about a disturbing story. Some White people were in denial that White Floridians used Black babies as gator bait. Of course, we would like to think that no one would do such a thing, but the truth is, in the name of racism, White people treated Black peo...

One-in-seven U.S. infants (14%) were multiracial or multiethnic in 2015, nearly triple the share in 1980, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. This increase comes nearly a half century after the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marria...

The advent of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized genetic engineering, offering unprecedented precision and ease in editing the DNA of living organisms. While this breakthrough has the potential to eradicate genetic diseases and improve human health, it has also ignited a fierce ethical debate...

If you are pregnant with your first child, you might have heard that first babies are more likely to be late. Also, you might have heard that they are more likely to be early. As it turns out, both are true. If “early” means preterm — before 37 weeks of pregnancy — firs...

Introduction to the Language Enigma The question of language development in isolation is not just a fascinating thought experiment; it’s a window into the essence of human communication. If we were to raise 100 babies in a closed environment, devoid of any direct linguistic input, what lang...