Leigh Anderson
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Really Into Bats? You Need This Bat-Locator App
Bats are woefully understudied. Perhaps it is because they are not cute, or because they’re nocturnal and we don’t see them very often, or, as “citizen scientist” Danielle Gustafson says in a Bloomberg report on a new bat app, because they just don’t have good PR in pop culture.
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How To Have A Conversation With A Conspiracy Theorist Without Losing Your Mind
6Faked moon landing, #PizzaGate, September 11 was an inside job, Vince Foster was murdered by the Clintons to cover up Whitewater, the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax – the list of conspiracy theories is long and bizarre. Side-show paranoid nonsense becomes alarming and enraging, however, when ordinary people base important decisions; how they vote,…
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Use An ‘Equality Calculator’ To See If You And Your Partner Are Sharing The Parenting Load Equally
I suppose there are some couples who feel as though divide household chores and childcare exactly 50-50 and are perfectly happy all the time and give each other foot massages every night. But for most people I know, every day is a particularly exhausting combination of whack-a-mole, an obstacle course and a flogging. And it…
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Bring Your Own Toys To The Paediatrician’s Office
It’s winter, the season of the never-ending cough. Every year, my kids get some kind of phlegmy hack that peaks after a few days and then gets… mostly better, except at night, when the hackathon reasserts itself. Eventually I get tired of this and head to the paediatrician.