Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. What Does That Mean for the Country? - WSJ
“There is the birthrate and there is the number of children people have in their lifetime, and they are not the same,” she says. The total fertility rate of 1.57 is a snapshot statistic, not a portrait of any particular woman’s life, she says. It estimates the average number of children a woman would have if she lived through her childbearing years experiencing current rates.
That may not be a good measure of what American women are actually doing. “If you look at women in their 50s who have completed childbearing—what’s called the ‘completed cohort fertility rate’—that number has been hovering right around 1.9 to 2,” Bailey says.
Some of the explanation can be found in another number buried in the data: More than one-quarter of the decline in the fertility rate is accounted for by falling rates of teen pregnancy since 2007, according to recent analysis by Alison Gemmill, associate professor of epidemiology at UCLA, and Magali Barbieri, a researcher in the department of demography at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Height Gap | The New Yorker — My theory: caloric usage diverts to intracranial processes as an economy becomes more service oriented and less reliant on physical labor.
Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It | The New Yorker
Turns out, A.I. was assisting these small businesses in roughly the same way that my teen-age self had
Trump got him!
Now this is innovative. Why can’t Apple do this for the iPhone? So much nicer than MagSafe.
Monaco GP track breakdown: F1’s crown jewel of risk, precision and rich history - The Athletic
Even Basketball Players Lie About Their Height | The New Yorker
Texas and the Smithsonian Are Locked in a Custody Battle Over a Space Shuttle - WSJ
Hope it stays in Virginia.
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Do You Know as Much About Personal Finance as These High-Schoolers? Take the Quiz - WSJ
Trump Suggests Vance and Rubio Should Run Together in 2028 Election - The New York Times
CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’ - The New York Times
Scott Pelley Out at CBS News After ‘60 Minutes’ Clash
“Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear,” Bilton said in a letter sent to Pelley Tuesday evening and reviewed by Variety. “And I have heard you. I therefore write on behalf of CBS News to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated effective immediately.”
The Strange Emptiness of the Crowded Governor’s Race in California | The New Yorker
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The Strange Emptiness of the Crowded Governor’s Race in California | The New Yorker