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Articles by julia.d.wise

Lots of things are connected with eugenics

It’s easy to tar things this way, but it doesn’t make much sense.

How much will pregnancy affect your health and work?

You might get lucky, you might not.

Childcare guide

Daycare centers, small home daycares, nannies, au pairs

How we end up with different intuitions about problems

Why do some people think a problem is very common and others think it’s very rare?

Advice for moving to Boston

Neighborhoods, timing, transit.

A week in the life: where time goes with three kids

Tracking sleep, work, time with the kids, and all the rest.

Donations and budgeting, 15 years in

We still donate half, but that looks very different now than it used to.

How to talk with kids about race?

I think some of what I’ve said has backfired.

How to appreciate music more?

How to savor music I already know and discover the best music of the past?

Babies are different from most of our reality

If you proposed our current method of reproduction to a medical ethics board, I assume they would be horrified.

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