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Childhood & Growing Up
The emotional, imaginative, and developmental side of childhood, from early creativity to the years when kids begin becoming themselves.
- Sep 4, 2026 Modern concrete usually crumbles within about 100 years, but a sample taken from beneath a communal latrine at… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 4, 2026 On 18 August 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen pointed a spectroscope at a total solar eclipse over Guntur, India… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
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- Sep 3, 2026 Children who nap after learning a new skill retain roughly ten percent more of it the next day than children kept… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 3, 2026 The hardest part of watching a parent age isn't the physical decline, it's the role reversal nobody trained you for and… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 2, 2026 Every patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria, and NASA now warns those… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 1, 2026 In the quietest room on Earth, the only sound left is you By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 31, 2026 What looks like your mother repeating the same story for the fourth time isn't memory failing, sometimes it's her… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 26, 2026 Nobody talks about why so many people cry the first time they eat alone in a restaurant after decades of marriage, and… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 26, 2026 Adults who feel more like themselves at 60 than they did at 30 aren't experiencing a personality change, they're… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 25, 2026 In 2018, cockatoos in the suburbs of Sydney began flipping open household wheelie bins by wedging their beaks under the… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 23, 2026 Children who play with wooden blocks practise spatial reasoning, and researchers at the University of Delaware found… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 21, 2026 In 1961, a Soviet dog named Zvezdochka orbited Earth eighteen days before Yuri Gagarin flew, and photographs of her… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 20, 2026 At three years old, a child's brain uses glucose at roughly twice the rate of an adult brain, gram for gram, a… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 20, 2026 At six months, a baby babbling in a nursery in Tokyo produces the same range of consonants as a baby babbling in… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 19, 2026 Adults who kept every letter, birthday card, and handwritten note from the 1980s aren't hoarders, they're the last… By The Artful Age Editorial Team