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Turning on Your Fertility Machine
Check those dystopian body horrors of modern motherhood at the door.
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Motherboard
Online communities step in to connect pregnant women and moms when “mainstream” culture turns the other way.
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How to Keep Your Kids Porn-Free
Smartphones bring adult content closer to kids than ever before. Here are some tools that can help avoid exposure.
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An Ear Towards Community
The convenience of the audiobook comes at a cost of intimacy.
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Roll Your Own Community
The Algorithm is not your friend, but there is no shortage of tools to find real ones.
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Self-Adoption and the Communal Computer
Shrinking a computer to fit into everyone’s pocket was the first step toward ending the world.
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Disappear Here
If ghosting is the sign that a person lacks the will or the ability to hold their end of the social contract, muting implies a fear of abandonment and an absence of emotional hygiene.
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What is Old is New at Home
Homeschooling bridges generations in the virtues of giving and receiving, and of sharing the load together.
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Transhumanism in Lipstick
Writer and podcaster Helen Roy wants to offer a traditional alternative to the open-air asylum of twenty-first century womanhood.
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Passing Notes
What we lose when correspondence goes paperless.
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The Right to Disappear Completely
The recluse, whether as scapegoat or hero, is little understood.
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Meat-Market Blues
Swan is a new service that’s trying the impossible: bringing humanity to online dating.
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After the Shortages
For moms, the new normal is uncertainty – and prepping.
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An Embryonic Revolution
How close are we to artificial wombs?
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Piecing Atoms Back Together
What do you do when the tool has become the master?
Where tech aligns