Using 7,500 popular American baby names, developer and designer Nate Parrot trained a neural network to convert each name into numbers — a strategy used in machine learning. The algorithm then combined the numbers representing these existing names to create unfamiliar combinations. The result? Names that make kids seem like they crawled out of a Black Mirror episode. Apparently, by analyzing features of common names, the computer could distinguish between words that seem more or less name-like....

Best Beard Wash: Stubble & Stache’s Face & Beard Wash You can’t deliver all the healthy nutrients to your hair and skin if you don’t first have a clean canvas. This would be like trying to moisturize your face before cleansing it: You would just be coating cream over top all the grease, grime, and Cheerio dust that has accumulated. So, before you apply any oils and balms (in that order), you need to first wash the beard with a gentle cleanser....

What are tips to help a father get along with his teenage daughter? I’ll start with the caveat that it’s hard to help someone in a situation like this because no one else knows the particulars of another person’s situation. I happen to get along pretty well with my step-daughter (15), but I recognize that some of that is blind luck that she’s wired similarly from a Myers-Briggs-y perspective and we share some common interests....

This is but a brief glimpse. What I saw is not shocking to anyone familiar with Twitter or any other social media or news platform. It’s par for the very craggy course. A quick scroll confronts the average user with a barrage of posts that contain everything from the lightly comedic to the largely soul-withering. Of course, one’s feelings about what they see depends on their own tastes and opinions....

“I took an inventory when I was 14,” says Lewis. “I counted about 51 guys — people that were influential in my life, part of my family, and instrumental in my growth. And then out of those 51, 48 of them had been incarcerated.” Now, Lewis is 41 years old with children of his own. What do Lewis’ kids see now? What does Lewis see? That not much has changed....

That said, there are ways to get your toddler to focus a bit more on the words that are coming out of your face. Here are seven ways to change the way you talk so your toddler will actually listen. Get Active Help your toddler understand that you are, in fact, a real and serious person by getting up close and personal. This means that you need to stop bellowing from another room....

“Quite simply, burpees train your whole body,” explains Chris Stevenson, CSCS, and owner of Stevenson Fitness in Oak Park, California. “Through their explosive range of motion, they target both large and small muscle groups.” The large ones include your chest, back, and thighs, while the smaller, accessory muscles include your torso, shoulders, and arms. “Each of these muscle groups is engaged in a very intense, very kinetic way,” adds Stevenson....

Hyde and Eek! Halloween Trick or Treat Pail Maybe the second most popular candy receptacle after a pillowcase is the classic plastic jack-o’-lantern. This one is 16 inches wide and a foot tall with a secure plastic handle and toothy visage. If your kids want more of a Tim Burton vibe, it’s available in black and white, but we prefer the timeless orange and black version. Buy Now $6 Light Up Monster Puffy Treat Bag This felt version of Frankenstein’s monster has some nice details: forehead stitches, ears that stick out and a mop of black hair....

As a movie about World War II and the righteous struggle of the Allied Forces against the Axis Powers made and released during the war, Casablanca is the product of a very specific cultural moment. Yet Michael Curtiz’s masterpiece is also timeless in its elegant retro aesthetic. It’s a cinephile black and white art deco wet dream of beauty and sophistication, glamour, and romance. From the vantage point of 2022, it’s also almost suspiciously timely....

Whether you’re waiting to find out the gender of your baby or are hoping to raise them with less stringent gender roles, these are some of the coolest gender-neutral names out there.

We get it. While you’d like to think you’ll only hear rave reviews, you know better and might fear that their honest answer would sound like you’re failing as a partner, dad, or both, and that’s too much to take. So you don’t ask about yourself, and just keep doing what you’ve been doing. That might be adequate, but it guarantees that nothing changes, nothing gets better. When laid out like that, not seeking answers makes no sense....

We know how genetics work, but sometimes we’re still startled by how someone can look exactly like both of their parents. Of course, it makes sense that a kid would look like their mom or dad, but Prince George seems to have equal attributes to both his parents, which doesn’t always happen. “George is turning 9!” the caption on a new release picture read, adding a birthday cake and balloon emoji....

RELATED: Best Road Trip Apps For Kids That Make Travel Less Painful Fatherly’s brand-spanking new Back-To-School Bot is a Facebook Messenger bot that can help you find backpacks, school supplies, gadgets, lunch boxes and shoes for kids in preschool through elementary school. Just tell the virtual assistant what you’re looking for, give it a rough age-range and, faster than you can say “Thank you Robot Overlord!”, you’ll receive 10 options that Junior will be chomping at the bit to show off on the first day of school....

And while we’re not emotionally prepared to think about Jeopardy! sans Trebek, he’s given it some thought, as he shared at a recent panel promoting the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time primetime event that aired its second episode last night. “When people ask me who I’d like to see replace me, I say, ‘Well, it’s probably going to be a woman and she’ll have to be bright. She’ll have to have a good sense of humor....

So do parents actually prefer sons over daughters? It’s clear that different people want different things — but also that there are some broader trends. Americans Think They Prefer Boys… Gallup has been polling Americans about their baby gender preferences since 1941, and the results are consistent — there’s always a slight preference for sons over daughters. About 40% of parents, across the decades, have told researchers that if they could only have one child, they would want a boy....

Because the American government doesn’t meaningfully subsidize childhood — it spends less than 7,000 dollars per kid in low-income families and only about 2.7 percent of its GDP on children in general — most of the politicians working against the interests of children are small government types looking to make cuts on cuts on cuts. This may make short-term sense to deficit hawks, but studies and history suggest that a failure to adequately invest in early childhood nutrition, education, and support leads to massive long-term costs, both in fiscal and human terms....

This is to say that you’re not alone if you’ve sought out a bit of stress-relief in the virtual arms of online porn. Porn can be beneficial — or benign, at least — in moderation. In fact, most studies have shown that men who view pornography only occasionally, and with the consent of a significant other, suffer no negative outcomes. But once you’re sneaking around or clicking through pornographic sites instead of parenting, psychological and relationship issues inevitably follow....

Raffi Cavoukian, in case you just woke from an extended coma, burst onto the scene with 1975’s Good Luck Boy but really lit people’s wigs on fire with 1976’s Singable Songs for the Very Young, which included such hits as “Down by the Bay” and “The More We Get Together.” Over the years, as Raffi went from swarthy Lothario to saintly eminence grise, his fan base maintained a sempiternal innocence....

Psychoanalyst John Bowlby first proposed the attachment theory in 1958 after looking at animal research that attributed most distress to absent mothers in the first year of life. The theory was later applied to humans, hypothesizing that if an infant successfully bonds with their primary caregivers, they will be able to have largely secure, emotionally stable relationships throughout their lives, and by extension, superior mental and emotional health. More importantly, if they’re not able to connect or bond, they’re doomed to a life of instability and much-needed therapy....

According to Nameberry, which touts itself as “the world’s largest website devoted to baby names,” there are always trends when it comes to baby names. We see this yearly when some of the more unusual names given to babies that year are revealed. Of course, there are also names that are classic, that always seem to be on trend. But it’s the more unique ones that can give us a window into what was happening in the world at that time....