The heightened awareness of mortality that you get after a death doesn’t last. For me the fearlessness that is a side effect of loss slipped away after a few months. I didn’t realize it was gone until I went back to things like stressing over errors on our cable bill. The magical contrails of loss had vanished. By then my life had already changed. A kid was coming and I was choosing what to assimilate from my father’s life into my own....

According to The New York Times, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached the far side of the Moon on November 20th, following a six-day journey to get there. “A few minutes before Orion’s closest pass with the moon on Monday, the capsule fired its engine for 2.5 minutes,” the publication explains. Firing up its engines allowed the spacecraft enough momentum to swing to the far side of the Moon, traveling around in the opposite direction from which the Moon travels around Earth....

During a time of unprecedented inflation, political partisanship, and dire environmental warnings, and a historically scant social safety net, being a parent may have never been more challenging. Working parents are struggling on many fronts. So, in honor of Working Parents Day, here are 14 things working parents want the rest of the world to know. 1. Child Care Costs Are Crushing Working Parents A recent analysis found that most families expect to spend at least 20% of their entire income on child care....

“Next Level Action” includes footage – of both the finished and behind-the-scenes variety — from a wild sequence in which a bus careens down some famous streets in San Francisco. The featurette also reveals snippets of other scenes and includes comments from actors Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Michelle Yeoh, and Fala Chen, as well as director Destin Daniel Cretton, fight coordinator Andy Cheng, and producer Kevin Feige, about the film’s stunts, martial arts, “magical” story, and more....

Turns out, in both a robot Old West and in the Final Frontier, Jimmi Simpson will become a baddie. In Star Trek: Prodigy, Simpson will play a robot enforcer called Drednok, who is in pursuit of a spaceship called the Protostar. In this series, the Protostar will be an abandoned starship commandeered by outcast alien tweens and teens, sort of like a sci-fi version of The Boxcar Children, but with more warp drive and fewer bungalow mysteries....

Prior to becoming Nancy Drew, adult movie moviegoers probably saw Lillis in the 2017 version of Stephen King’s horror extravaganza It: Chapter One. And though Lillis is proud of her work in It and other horror films, she’s happy that with Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, she can finally invite her family and friends to see a movie she’s in. “IT was a lot darker than Nancy Drew. So, I’m happy to be in something with no bad language or horror or blood or gore,” Lillis tells me....

According to Giles Martin, the producer who oversaw the new version of Revolver, the alternate takes of the Paul McCartney-penned song stem from the idea that John Lennon assumed “Yellow Submarine” was a protest song. In an interview with Variety, Martin puts it like this: “[John Lennon] sings it as a sort of almost like Woody Guthrie-type, maudlin kind of thing.” This is accurate, but what is even more true is that when you listen to it, John Lennon actually sings it in a very post-Beatles John Lennon-ish way, which will remind you more of “Mind Games” or “#9 Dream....

A new WalletHub report that took into account 52 “key metrics of family-friendliness” to rate how easy it is for parents living in each state has come out and said it: the home of Elizabeth Warren is the best place to raise a family. They’re split into five evenly weighted categories—family fun, health & safety, education & child care, affordability, and socioeconomics—that reflect some of the priorities parents might have when deciding where to raise their kids....

This is a question just about every parent should be asking themselves this time of year. For states that use the federal health insurance marketplace, open enrollment runs from November 1 to December 15 (states that run their own marketplace may have different enrollment periods). That means there’s precious little time to start figuring out what you’re going to do for insurance next year. And because health coverage is likely one of the biggest line items on your family’s budget, it’s a decision you don’t want to make without some serious thought....

I believe in leading by example. So, my son always watches me. I always say “please” and “thank you.” I always hold the door for people. I always go out of my way just to set a good example for him, whether it’s picking up trash in the parking lot or whatever it might be. There are times that I have to remind him, when he doesn’t say please, like, “Eli, remember next time to say please....

In their 40s and with a history of fertility problems, the Pennimans’ plan to have another child was suddenly rendered irrelevant. Their growing family would grow no further. “It wasn’t even signed by anyone,” remembers Wendy, who was both numbed and appalled by the businesslike manner in which the news was delivered. “She was almost in miscarriage mode,” Rick recalls. “And I told her a process had started. A legal process had started with us and a process had started with them and it’s going to take a long time....

Dawn Maslar, M.S., adjunct biology professor, researcher, and expert in the “science of love” has the scientific rationale behind that warm and fuzzy feeling you get when you look at your wife and kid. You probably don’t need to see a doctor about it. The 2-Year Honeymoon Period “When a person is falling in love, there’s a biological stage where your brain goes into hormonal upheaval, and it lasts for about 2 years,” says Maslar....

Let’s define “stuff.” Rather than stand-up gigs, comedy specials, or albums, “stuff” encompasses acting (or voice) roles in a lot of high-profile projects. From his famous Boba Fett bit on Parks and Recreation to a cranky AI cat in Star Trek: Picard, to literally the best voiceover role in the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman, Oswalt is everywhere, both in the immediate present and the very recent past. Lately, though, he’s no longer an indie comedian, he’s a geeky A-lister, able to take big risks on weird projects....

How was Paul, who has fought in one professional fight, able to go the distance with one of the greatest boxers of all time? The 18-year age difference certainly played a big role, along with Mayweather making it clear he did not do his usual preparation for the fight. But the biggest factor had more to do with the size of the two fighters. Paul stands 6-foot-2 with a 76-inch reach and while he was able to get down to 189....

The news comes at a time when general COVID-19 developments are mixed. Yes, more vaccines are making it into people’s arms than ever — and as states open eligibility, there’s reason to believe that Biden’s July 4th mandate — that we’d be grilling with our friends by the time it’s Independence Day — could come true. On the other hand, AstraZeneca’s vaccine rollout has been plagued by unforced errors and concerns, whether or not founded, over blood clots, and a climbing number of daily cases and lessening of state COVID restrictions has led some experts, including the head of the CDC, to fear we are heading straight into the fourth wave of COVID-19 just as the vaccine output is ramping up in a major way....

Pinterest Rank: 13 2017 Rank: 12Number of Employees: 1,200 Pinterest boards across the world serve as inspiration for new parents. The company’s policies probably should as well. The San Francisco-based social media player, which tweaked its policy last year, now offers 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to both full-time mothers and fathers. It is worth noting that company statistics indicate that most employees don’t take full advantage of their leave....

When Should I Start Making A Contingency Plan? Fadwah Halaby, APRN/CNM, is a Certified Nurse Midwife who has worked in several Emergency Rooms and Labor and Delivery units. She assisted over 1600 women in giving birth at two hospitals in Palm Beach County and frequently saw over 500 women in the office every month. The Founder of Midwife 360, she and her team provide comprehensive care to women in South Florida, including home births....

“The thrill of tag is biological and evolutionary and simulates a predator-prey dynamic, with the person being chased is prey,” explains psychologist Rachel Tomlinson. “You can also see this behavior in many animals, with young animals in the species playing tag to practice this skill of retreating from a predator to keep safe.” As a result, when kids chase each other they excite their limbic system, the reward center of the brain, receives a rush of dopamine, the so-called happiness hormone....

I’ve got a pretty serious problem with my anger. I really didn’t notice it until after my wife and I had our kid. Now I feel like I’m yelling all the time and then afterward I feel super guilty about it. I don’t know how to fix it and I’m worried I’m going to lose my family. What should I do? John, Cleveland, Ohio * I feel you on this one, John....

My justification for scanning Reddit impulsively every couple of hours was that the self-proclaimed front-page of the internet wasn’t really social media. After all, I reasoned, I’d long forgotten my Reddit username and password and wasn’t commenting in any of the threads. This justification was important because without it, how else could I fill my time on the crapper? What other option could there be? Surely I couldn’t just sit there in silence examining the dried toothpaste on the sink....