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I Sang Through Labor to Manage the Pain Turns out, women have been singing, chanting and humming through childbirth for centuries. But can it actually provide relief? Credit...Lily Snowden-Fine March 9, 2021 Back in the summer of 2016, when I was about to give birth and enduring one debilitating contraction after another, I was struck with an idea: What if I were to sing through the agony? With a karaoke YouTube video pulled up on my husband’s phone, I began belting out lyrics to Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” straight from my hospital bed. “Nibblin’ on sponge cake,” I began s...

Divide et impera. Divide and rule: the approach of choice for many historical conquerors, and also a great way to write a novel. Breaking apart something that was once whole to examine the pieces provides the novelist with an approach fit for a whole range of subjects. I’ve found so many books following that pattern that I couldn’t begin to list them all. But the good news is that I’ve only been asked to talk about five here, so I’ve picked five that have lodged themselves in my brain, and showcase in how many ways the tactic can be used when it comes to the best science fiction and f...

You’re certainly right about the spending drop in the bucket. But overall I still think it’s probably a waste. If the objective is some kind of human landing or achieving a base on Mars, isn’t this pointless? NASA has concluded that Mars can’t be terraformed. And why send a few human beings to a desolate rock? That said, I deeply believe in space exploration. In fact, I’d pour a lot more money into it. But rockets aren’t the answer. They can’t take us to anyplace worth going to. We ought to begin working on the science and technology that might do that, taking us to other star s...

Courtesy of Nikki Campo For two years, my 6-year-old daughter Ruby has begged us to open a “restaurant” in our backyard. Before the pandemic, I would take 30 seconds to explain why we couldn’t do it, then I’d redirect her to a supersized puzzle. But this winter, she added a twist to her pitch: "We could ask for money and give it to charity.” Unable to resist such altruism from a 6-year-old, I paused. "I want to see a detailed plan," I said. Usually, asking for a written plan is a non-starter. She'll roll her eyes and return to the puzzle, Play-Doh or tub full of LEGO bricks. But t...

There’s still the battery problem. One of Tesla’s big innovations was the switch to lithium batteries and they started out by trying to design a battery pack that wouldn’t easily catch on fire. As we now know those efforts were mixed at best. Earllier electrc hybrids like the Prius did not use lithium. PlutoniumKun Its a strange problem when the costs are dropping constantly, virtually month by month, and the power outputs of the batteries are going up all the time. The price of lithium has actually being going down, contrary to scare mongering about supplies. And yes, lithium is flamma...