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📰 Newsletter Topic 👸🏻 Society & Culture 💡 Ideas: Big and Small 🤰🏻 Motherhood 😎 Relax & Escape 🧗 Growth 👨👩👧👧 For the Family ⏭ Series
💣= explicit language 🌭 = frank content ⚠️ = sensitive topic
📰 “Have you been properly sorted into your Hogwarts house?”
“If so, gather your wand and your invisibility cloak, we’re going back to the castle to play trivia!”
Listen to Family Road Trip Trivia Podcast | Harry Potter Trivia, Again! (15 min)
👸🏻 “TikTok videos are entertaining and sometimes… life-saving”
“Earlier this year, a video on hospital bill cancellation went viral. We speak with the creator to find out how he got into charity care.”
Listen to The Indicator from Planet Money | Can TikTok Cancel Your Hospital Bills? (10 min)
💡 ” It was an experiment that could never be performed in a lab”
“This week, we revisit this fascinating story, told by psychologist Nancy Segal, about the eternal tug between nature and nurture in shaping who we are.”
Listen to Hidden Brain | What Twins Tell Us (28 min)
🤰🏻 “We see birth order play out pretty clearly”
“But is it a bad thing? Is it a thing to fight back against? Is there a way to make the older child less stressed, and the baby maybe a little *more* motivated? And is it a problem if our own birth order has shaped who we are as adults and how we parent?”
Listen to What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Birth Order: Can We Fight It? (47 min)
😎 “Every year, fights break out on airplanes”
“They happen between the people who lean back in their seats, and the people who get their knees smooshed. If you think about it, these arguments are the result of confusion.”
Listen to 99% Invisible | Mine! (30 min)
🧗 “Are you able to use this information to optimize your energy (and make that brain happy…)?”
“In this episode of the Happy Brain podcast, Heather discusses whether or not it matters what time you drink your coffee.”
Listen to Tiny Leaps, Big Changes | HB: Drink Coffee at 10:30 for More Energy (8 min)
👨👩👧👦 “Tax-collecting sheriffs used to force people to pay money to a king”
“These days our tax system works a bit differently. We get to vote for people who’ll spend that money on things we care about — like schools and libraries, health care for elderly people, police, parks, sewers and so on.”
Listen to Million Bazillion | Taxes pay for the things we care about (22 min)
⏭ “Where everything went wrong for childcare in America”
“Gloria digs into the shame, guilt, and divisions baked into our earliest day nurseries, and reveals how old-fashioned gender norms and blatant racism killed promising federally-funded, early childcare programs. “
Listen to No One is Coming to Save Us | Birth of a Broken System | 2 (63 min)
🎬 A summer school kids actually want to attend | Karim Abouelnaga | TED