Category: The Atlantic Online
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Can You Choose Your Baby?
A $10 baby-sex guide is taking over TikTok, promising parents they can influence whether they have a boy or girl simply by timing intercourse.
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The Baby-Making Illusion
The Babydust Method is taking TikTok by storm, promising parents a way to influence whether they have a boy or a girl.
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Birth Control for Rats?
Washington, D.C., is putting rats on birth control as part of an aggressive campaign to tackle its growing rodent problem.
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Silliness Might Be Good for Us
Adults have plenty of satire and clever humor, but pure silliness is surprisingly rare.
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Meditation Isn’t Always Peaceful
Meditation is supposed to calm the mind, but what happens when it does the exact opposite?
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Doctors May Not Come First
Medicine’s biggest AI rule is simple: machines can advise, but doctors must decide.
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Who Turned Dystopia Real?
Silicon Valley’s most powerful founders may have read science fiction as a blueprint instead of a warning.
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Books That Make You Think Again
Summer reading was fun, but now it’s time to switch the brain back on.
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Can NASA See Alien Planets?
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could transform how we study both the universe’s largest structures and planets around distant stars.