childhood
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On human babies and adult octopuses.
For a short time, as infants, we felt the world as octopuses do.
animal minds, babies, baby, baby cognition, baby perception, bat, bats, cephalopod, childhood, Christina MacSweeney, cognition, consciousness, decentralized minds, distributed minds, Gluck, how do babies experience the world, how do babies see the world, human babies, infant, infant cognition, infant experience, infant mind, infant perception, infants, Jazmina Barrera, Katie Schmid, Leslie Jamison, Linea Nigra, Louise Gluck, Marigold and Rose, medieval art, Megan O'Rouke, mental perception, mind, perception, The Bear's Kiss, The Boatman, the experience of babies, the lives of babies, the lives of infants, Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
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On maternal bonds and cruelty.
We’ve all benefited from cruel research — so what do we do now?
animal activism, animal research, animal welfare, autism, baby monkeys, biomedical ethics, childhood, ethics, Harry Harlow, Harvard, John Gluck, Livingstone, macaque, Margaret Livingstone, maternal bond, medical ethics, monkey, monkeys, parenting, parenting advice, primate research, primates, research animals, research ethics, research macaques, research monkeys, rhesus macaque, rhesus monkey, science, scientific ethics, scientific research, separation at birth, trauma, Triggers for Mother Love, vegan, veganism, Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals
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On autism and parenting.
My kids are lucky to have such dissimilar parents. Which is happier than thinking I’m the defective parent.
ASD, autism parenting, autism spectrum, autistic parent, building relationships, child psychology, childhood, childhood development, data mining, data-driven dating, dating apps, dating sites, developmental psychology, family, father, fatherhood, growing together, human development, love, mate choice, parenting, parenting on the spectrum, parenting with autism, personal growth, psychology studies, raising a family, raising children, raising kids, relationships, romance
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On gateway drugs.
Being lied to is a gateway to rebellion.
A Romance, addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, altered consciousness, bars, Bruce Weigl, childhood, children, dangerous drugs, depression, dizziness, dizzy, drug abuse, drug research, drug use, drugs, ecstasy, gateway drugs, incarceration, insomnia, jail, jail poetry, laws, lying, marijuana, mass incarceration, MDMA, parenting, poem, poetry, pot, PTSD, sleep disorder, sleep disturbance, spinning, teaching in jail, veterans, War on Drugs, which drugs are most dangerous, which drugs cause most harm
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On parenting and short-term memory loss.
Caring for young children wrecks havoc on your brain. I’ve heard it’s temporary. And, to make a better world, more men need to do it.
Abdel Haleem, Abrahamic faiths, Anthropology of Childhood, attention span, banishment, banishment of Sita, Beverly Strassmann, childhood, Christian, Christianity, contract law, David Lancy, developing brains, Dogon, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Draupadi, Draupadi in the gambling hall, early development, Emily Wilson, emotional development, family, fatherhood, feminism, feminist, gambling, Garry Wills, gender equality, gender parity, gossip, inequality, Islam, Jewish, Judaism, Mahabharata, Mary Beard, memory, Mermaid and the Minotaur, misogyny, Muslim, parenting, patriarchy, Penelope, philosophy, polygamy, polygyny, preschool development, Quran, shirking responsibility, Sita, Telemachus, The Odyssey, value, what matters in life, What the Qur’an Meant, What the Quran Meant and Why It Matters, who should parent, Women and Power, women’s work
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On clarity, Matthew Zapruder’s “Why Poetry,” and reading Bruce Weigl.
We should strive for clarity, out of love for those willing to listen.
abuse, Billy Collins, blaming victims, Blast Furnace, Bloomington, Bruce Weigl, childhood, clarity, drug abuse, drug use, honesty, honesty in writing, Introduction to Poetry, jail, mass incarceration, Matthew Zapruder, memory, metaphor, Monroe County Jail, New Leaf New Life, poems, poetry, prison, psychiatry, psychology, PTSD, rape, recovery dorm, rehab, rehabilitation, repressed memories, say it clearly and you make it beautiful, sexual abuse, Spotlight, symbolism, The Impossible, Tom McCarthy, trauma, Why Poetry, writing
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