The Best Continuous Glucose Monitors

Ease of administration: All four CGMs were easily affixed to the back of my arm using a plunger device held against the skin. (I must admit that I’m not sure I could have done this on my own, at least the first few times. I engaged the help of my mechanical-engineering husband, who found administration […]

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7 Face Masks Your Kids May Actually Wear (2023)

For three years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued complicated—and occasionally contradictory—guidance on when you should wear a mask, depending on whether you’re inside, outside, vaccinated, or not vaccinated. But no matter how cautious you are, if you’re a parent, there is one significant way you’re probably getting sick: Your […]

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13 Face Masks Your Kids May Actually Wear

For nearly two years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued complicated—and occasionally contradictory—guidance on when you should wear a mask, depending on whether you’re inside, outside, vaccinated, or not vaccinated. In all the confusion, it’s easy to miss one big demographic that remains unvaccinated: Children below age 12 still can’t get […]

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12 Face Masks Your Kids May Actually Wear

For nearly two years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued complicated—and occasionally contradictory—guidance on whether or not you should wear a mask, depending on if you’re inside, outside, vaccinated, or not vaccinated. In all the confusion, it’s easy to miss one big demographic that remains unvaccinated: Children below age 12 still […]

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The 8 Best Science Books to Read or Gift This Holiday Season

by Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, first published in 2014, told the story of human history as the invention of ever more complex fictions. The product of these fictions—a thing we might call progress—was not necessarily a net benefit for individual humans. It was pulling us away from our happiness and, probably, toward […]

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