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Nearly 6% of preschoolers, ages 1 to 4, had been given the sleep supplement melatonin, according to a recent survey. Aya Koike/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Aya Koike/Getty Images Nearly 6% of preschoolers, ages 1 to 4, had been given the sleep supplement melatonin, according to a recent survey. Aya Koike/Getty Images What do you do when you can’t get your kids to settle down to go to sleep? For a growing number of parents, the answer is melatonin. Recent research shows nearly one in five school-age children and adolescents are now using the supplement on a regular basis.…
I’m going to miss The Crown. At its best, it has been alternately soothing, nostalgic, and educational, and even at its worst, it has always been well acted and gorgeous.Unfortunately, the second half of the sixth and final season is very much The Crown at its worst. These six episodes, released yesterday on Netflix, are an unfocused canter around the paddock of the late 1990s and early 2000s: Prince William turns 18, Prince Charles finally makes an honest woman of Camilla Parker Bowles, Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother die, and Elizabeth II ends the series by being talked out…
NPR’s Juana Summers talks with WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani about the company’s recent decision to provide weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The internet lit up earlier this week when Oprah Winfrey told People magazine that she’s been using a weight loss drug to lose and maintain her weight. The media powerhouse said the drug has been a relief, a redemption and a gift. Quote, “I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself.” Winfrey is giving voice to what countless people have felt since embracing a class of drugs that were originally…
Plus: A theory of the baby bustJulio Gamboa / Gallery StockDecember 15, 2023, 2:33 PM ETWelcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.Question of the WeekWhat do you think about all-male or all-female social spaces?Send your responses to conor@theatlantic.com or simply reply to this email.Conversations of NoteEarlier this week, I sent out some of your descriptions of how you interacted with peers in adolescence. Another batch of those responses is coming. But I wanted to…
A vial of ketamine, captured in July 2018. Over the years, the drug has been used as a sedative as well as an alternative treatment for pain and depression. Teresa Crawford/AP hide caption toggle caption Teresa Crawford/AP A vial of ketamine, captured in July 2018. Over the years, the drug has been used as a sedative as well as an alternative treatment for pain and depression. Teresa Crawford/AP The use of the drug ketamine has evolved since its development in the 1960s as a human and animal anesthetic. Today, it’s known both as a promising new treatment for severe depression…
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.So much can go wrong at an office holiday party. And yet … see you in the break room at 5:30.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:A Baked-In NormMany Americans have reconsidered the role of work in their lives in recent years. Is your office your family? No. Are your co-workers your friends? Not necessarily. Are you all still expected at the holiday…
New research shows a big increase in children taking melatonin to help with sleep. Pediatricians warn the long-term effects of the hormone supplement aren’t known. LEILA FADEL, HOST: More parents are turning to melatonin when their kids can’t get to sleep, and pediatricians say that’s alarming. Here’s NPR’s Maria Godoy.MARIA GODOY, BYLINE: Lauren Hartstein is a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies sleep in early childhood.LAUREN HARTSTEIN: All of a sudden, last year, we noticed that there was a big uptick in the number of parents who were regularly giving them melatonin.GODOY: Melatonin is a hormone produced…
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Nature writing has always been a little unsatisfying to me, I’ll admit. Unlike our relationships with other humans, which are tinged with friction and love and all the other ingredients of drama, our encounters with the natural world seemed fairly static. Nature exists out there: We walk through it, we enjoy its beauty, we sometimes feel its indiscriminate wrath. But there is not much back-and-forth. Or so I assumed. This week, Kelly McMasters gave me a lot to think…
It’s been 50 years since the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders, a milestone that helped change the perception of LGBTQ+ people in America.
The charming Wonka wisely understands that Roald Dahl characters don’t need much backstory.Jaap Buittendijk / Warner BrosDecember 15, 2023, 9:52 AM ETIs there any phrase more chilling in Hollywood these days than origin story? It’s a term most often attached to comic-book movies, a bottling of the oft-tragic backstories that launch ordinary characters into superheroism. But in recent years, the industry has grown obsessed with giving everyone an origin story. We had to learn what made Maleficent hate Sleeping Beauty, what dalmatians did to turn Cruella so grumpy; apparently, it was even important to find out why Snake Eyes from…