Amateur astronomer Christopher Go tracked the entire experience on his blog and took high-quality photos of Jupiter and the moons at around midnight on August 15 from the Philippines. “The day I have been waiting for all year has finally come,” Go wrote. “Today we had a grand slam event. A very rare triple transit on Jupiter with the moons Callisto, Ganymede and Europa in transit.” Kunio Sayanagi, a planetary scientist at Hampton University, took Go’s images and was able to compile them into a totally awesome video of the moons swirling around the planet’s surface....

“We went down a water slide, and my dad went down first. I went down second, and my mom went last. But as soon as I hit the pool of water at the bottom of the slide, I flipped upside down and didn’t know what to do, and I hadn’t had swim lessons,” says Jones. “I had to be pulled out and resuscitated after being underwater for almost 30 seconds, which is about the point at which a child can start to develop brain damage....

None of these feelings are pleasant, and I’m envious (and grateful) that my children, before this, hadn’t really had to grieve. Like most parents, I try to shield them from the dark realities of the world — hatred, violence, illness, and the main event: death. My wife, Lauren, and I did a nice job hanging on for a while. But Liz and Matt are 6 and 4 now, and their Nana, their great-grandmother, had just passed away....

In 2020 alone Al is the subject of three very different books: longtime drummer and right-hand man Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz’s fascinating, revelatory coffee table book Black & White & Weird All Over, a collection of photos from Al and his band’s early years that finds the quiet humanity and vulnerability behind all the zaniness, Lily Hirsch’s Weird Al: Seriously, a highbrow, academic exploration of Al’s work and my own Weird Accordion to Al: The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Edition, a 500-page celebration of Al’s complete discography as well as his work in TV, film and the live stage that has its roots in 2012’s Weird Al: The Book, a coffee table book I wrote with and about Al....

Here are nine weird scientific facts about baby teeth all parents should now. Baby Teeth Grow in the Womb Your kid’s teeth are one of the first things they’ll ever grow. Baby teeth form in the womb as early as six weeks into pregnancy. During this time, a section of tissue known as the dental lamina begins to grow along the gum line, where sections of cells known as tooth buds begin to grow....

“I grew up in the projects in London, and I had 3 younger sisters. I didn’t know how to defend myself, so I had to learn,” says Lockton. “Now that I have kids, I want to pass it on to them in a very practical, social way.” You may know Krav Maga as that Israeli Defense Forces martial art that lacks the poetry of karate and makes up for it with plenty of ca-razy....

That They Absorb Everything “One day, I was carrying my toddler-aged daugter around the house, and I stubbed my toe on the corner of the coffee table. It was excruciating, and I couldn’t help but yell, ‘Fuck!’ Fast forward to a day or two later, and what do you think her next word was? She only said it once – it wasn’t like that scene from Meet The Fockers, where the kid watches Scarface – but it was infinitely clear that she’d heard me say it, and was parroting it back....

Help is good. Grandparents are good. And parenting is cripplingly lonely enough as it is. The impulse makes sense in the abstract. There would appear to be a lot of good reasons to cocoon. For one thing, isolation protects the baby from any rogue pathogens that visitors could carry in. For another thing — bonding! Also, everyone is tired and you’re not going to get out of your sweatpants or comb your hair for a couple of weeks....

In Giese’s wide-ranging study, Boys posits that masculinity is not something to be downplayed, nor automatically dismissed as “toxic,” but instead is a daily reality lived by half the human population and a construct that is centuries overdue for a cultural and psychological tune up. Boys and young men can be raised to be empathetic, nurturing, and emotionally open, but our culture inhibits such growth. Subsequently, boys become men before they are ready to be adults — and the pressures to perform a masculinity that is not only outdated but self-harming is relentless....

“Today, Senate Democrats sided with American families over special interests, voting to lower the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance, and everyday energy costs and reduce the deficit, while making the wealthiest corporations finally pay their fair share,” President Biden said in a statement. The IRA contains some of the most sweeping climate legislation the U.S. has ever seen and aims to lower drug prices, decrease the deficit, extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, and revamp the current tax code to better reflect the dichotomy of rich and poor America....

READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Poop, Diapers, and Potty Training Babies Peeing in the Bathtub is No Big Deal First, the good news. A little pee never killed anyone. According to Stephanie Bosche, a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Tri-County Pediatrics in Philadelphia, if it’s yellow, parents can keep it mellow because urine is a pretty clean bodily fluid, at least bacteria-wise. “A little pee in the tub? Not too worried about it,” Bosche explains....

What Science Says About When a Fetus Can Feel Pain A 2005 multidisciplinary review of evidence published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) looked into the subject of fetal pain. Led by the University of California San Diego, researchers looked at 360 articles published in medical journals and concluded, “Pain is a subjective sensory and emotional experience that requires the presence of consciousness to permit recognition of a stimulus as unpleasant....

The wild and scenic river near the California city of Bakersfield is only four hours from our Los Angeles home. While we had rafted the Kern before, it was our Father’s Day trip 10 years ago that became a day to remember. My brother Joe and I had been guiding California river trips a few times a year as a hobby — mostly with our adult friends. With my son Zack now home on summer break from college, it was time to venture back to the Kern....

Our daughter is obsessed with Disney’s Moana, or ‘Nana’ as she likes to calls her. Why? It’s probably the catchy songs ⏤ she chimes in to say “You’re Welcome” in sync with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Maui ⏤ or maybe the bright colors or definitely the fact that we’ve allowed this addiction to fester. We have purchased the bedding, the figurines, the stuffed pig, and we’re currently trying to book a Moana cosplayer for her second birthday in a few months....

In many states across the country, over half of the daycare centers have been closed down. In Florida, over half of child care providers were closed due to low enrollment and low revenue. While that clearly makes sense right now, the problem is not that daycare isn’t running right now – it’s that the backbone of working American parents might not be able to re-open. Child care centers that don’t receive any government funding or subsidies will be hit the hardest, as they won’t be able to make up enrollment costs through government reimbursement....

You’re Basically A Gorilla. Embrace It. Gorillas have pubic hair, too. Despite the fact that great apes’ bodies are entirely covered in coarse hair, their pubic hair distinct—finer and shorter, by comparison. And that’s not the only thing human and ape pubes have in common. There’s evidence that humans inherited genital lice from the gorilla louse. Taken together, these observations suggest that pubic hair serves a unique purpose in both apes and humans....

It’s easy to assume that the child care center is gouging parents, stiffing staff, and pocketing big profits. With those kinds of numbers, that seems like a logical conclusion. Turns out, though, it’s not the case at all. In fact, just the opposite ⏤ many home providers and child care centers are struggling to keep the lights on, despite skyrocketing tuition prices. Child Care Aware of America, a national advocacy group that studies the cost of daycare, and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment recently released a fascinating video that breaks down how parents’ fees are allocated to keep a center in business....

“My husband was like my roommate.” The first affair partner I ever had, it wasn’t intentional. I was not searching to have an affair. That was not my intention at all. It just kind of happened spontaneously. He was living in another country at the time, we had never met face to face. It was just, like, a cyber friendship that turned into something that was a lot more. We eventually made plans to meet each other after eight months....

If you’re wondering, the next closest country on the “Marriage Is So Last Century” list is Bulgaria, where 59.1 percent of parents were unmarried. In the U.S., the number is closer to 40 percent. So … why? Well, for one thing, Iceland is probably the least paternalistic country on the planet. Iceland is something of a feminist wonderland that passes effectively no judgment on single mothers. There’s no pressure to marry and, if a marriage isn’t working, no pressure to stay that way....

Sound crazy? Let me explain. I firmly believe that children need to learn how to manage their own online presence — what to say, share, download, upload, and what not to say, share, and upload. As parents, we have a duty to teach our kids how to be good digital citizens, just like we’re responsible for showing them how to behave appropriately offline. Relying on cyber-spying is, in a way, an admission of failure....