child development

The essay you shared opens with a bracing, old-fashioned truth: for most people, the broad outlines of their lives are set well before they take their first breath. That image — the dash between birth and death on a gravestone — is the piece’s organizing metaphor, and the author uses it to sweep...

LISSUN’s new WhatsApp‑based assistant, Ray AI, promises to make early identification and daily developmental support for children far more accessible by putting an evidence‑informed parenting co‑pilot into the palm of caregivers’ hands, but the move also raises the familiar trade‑offs of scale...

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way humans interact with software, information, and—perhaps most contentiously—each other. As the adoption of AI-driven chatbots and digital assistants accelerates, profound questions about their role in our personal lives have moved...

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Lu Hao from China is only three years old yet he weighs a staggering 60kg (9st 6lb). Nearly five times the normal size of a child his age, he eats three bowls of rice at dinner time. When he was born, Lu Hao only weighed 2.6kg (5lb 8oz), but from the age of three months he started to...

Bright student Victoria Cowie may be only 11-years-old but she has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein. The schoolgirl has now joined the ranks of Mensa’s brightest people with an intelligence score of 162 – two points higher than the German physicist. Victoria had her pick of top schools...

Flashcards for toddlers is a huge business. Ok, I actually have no idea how big of a business it is. But I know parents think they're an important part of the development of their child, and I have witnessed that toddlers will actually tolerate them for short periods of time. The direct feedback...

Back in the olden days, people would sit around their living rooms, light up fancy cigars and talk about the future. They’d also try to guess what color looked like, given that everything was black and white, but I’m getting sidetracked now. Back to the future, people.If you were to somehow...