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• The Only Mother’s Day Gift Guide You Will Ever Need

  …embedded a little science here and there in the links. ) While the celebration of mothers is not a new concept, the modern version of Mother’s Day is a far cry from the ancient festivals that honored Cybele .  However, in 1907, when Anna Jarvis invented the modern Mother’s Day as a means to pay homage to her own mother, it was not her intention to use moms for profit. But, alas, by the 1920s, this well-intended national holiday quickly mo…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on May 9, 2012

• On this Father’s Day, let’s remember the allofathers, too

  …e United States have come to expect on weekends, particularly when we work salaried weekday jobs that ostensibly promise weekends off. That means that on top of the anxiety associated with stacking 20 or 30 extra hours onto a 40-hour work week to meet a tough deadline, my husband and my children’s father also feels angst about this inability to be a part of our family time. These are first-world problems, I realize, but that doesn’t m…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on June 16, 2012

• Motherhood, war, and attachment: what does it all mean?

  d “cry it out” with her children but that they seem to be doing well and are good sleepers. Then one of the toddlers begins to cry, obviously hurt in some way, and both mothers rush over together to offer assistance. Scene 3: In the evening, one of these parents might say to a partner, “Can you believe that they’re going to let him play football?” or “I can’t believe they’re still breastfeeding when she’s three!” Sure. They might “judge” or th…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on May 16, 2012

• Dominants, alphas, and queens: Happy Mother’s Day!

  …se-knit groups are important for successful hunting, as well as for rearing young that require a lot of parental investment (like humans do!). A killer whale’s female relatives assist her during labor, and even help guide her 400 lb calf to the surface to take its first breath. This cooperative behavior is a key part of teaching calves important life skills like the complex group hunting strategies similar to those that wolf packs use. Positives:…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on May 13, 2013

• Mother’s Day: Part of me forever

  …ou are KILLING me!”] Source. In fact, testing women’s cells for the presence of the Y chromosome — the “male” chromosome, which females shouldn’t carry — uncovers it in about 30% of the bone marrow of grown women and 47% of cardiac aortas. Even among women who have truly never had a reportable pregnancy, 7% or more would test positive for XY cells. Doubling those numbers to account for fetuses of both sexes further supports the idea that…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on May 12, 2012

• Motherhood Defined: It is in the heart of the beholder

  …u how it impacted your kid. As my nana always said, “It’s always the mother’s fault.”  I just hope that as the time passes I get more credit than blame for how my kids turn out. Helen Jonsen, Mom of 4, @Helen_Jonsen  Motherhood is how you stretch your heart in ways you never thought possible. It’s how you love through the ups & down, the challenges that life brings. And, it lasts a lifetime from that first…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on May 11, 2012

• From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

  According to Leslie Brunetta, she now has much more hair than she had last July. We became aware of Leslie Brunetta because of her book, Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating, co-authored with Catherine L. Craig. Thanks to a piece Leslie wrote for the Concord Monitor (and excerpted here), we also learned that she is a breast cancer survivor. Leslie agreed to an interview about her exper…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on January 31, 2012

• Depressing genes

  me overzealous and attack their own body’s tissue, often leading to serious health problems and death. Only rarely do gene variants cause primarily negative consequences, such as BRCA1, the breast cancer gene, or APOE epsilon 4, the early-onset Alzheimer’s disease gene. If insurance companies did, in fact, try to weed out clients based on their genetic make-up, they would soon find that most gene variants that put carriers at risk for some diseas…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on May 17, 2013

• Xplainer: How do you date a pregnancy?

  …it has been 8 weeks since the first day of the LMP (last menstrual period). But that means that the first two weeks of pregnancy has nothing happening. If you are concerned about development, you don’t start counting at week 3 but start at the time of fertilization, two weeks later. Therefore, the embryological age is generally two weeks later. But remember, we have essentially picked gestational age as the convention for discussing pregnancy d…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on October 3, 2012

• My bipolar life

  …o help me re-write it, and basically they gave me a degree just to get me out of the place. I would go on a job interview and knock it out of the park. When I was an executive for a publicly traded corporation, I would put in 48-hour days, managing financial forecasts, talking to investors, hiring employees, and writing emails to lawyers. I became a highly successful person in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. But only if you consid…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on February 8, 2013