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Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding,  My husband and I had our third child last fall. And for the third time, my mom pressured me to name her after my late sister, “Paloma.” Like before, I told her no, and we went with our originally planned …

Want to wake up feeling great? The secret might not be so simple as a multi-step nighttime routine, early bedtime, or a no-device rule. A new study suggests that how we fall asleep and how we wake up the next day may not be so similar as we once thought.  Neuroscientists tracked 20 people’s brain activity as they woke up …

Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on Jerome Powell, calling the US central bank chair a “numbskull” and accusing him of “making it difficult for people, especially the young, to buy a house”. The US president accused Powell of preventing the Federal Reserve from lowering interest rates to make housing more affordable. Recent figures have shown US house prices rising …

LONDON — For weeks while back home in Warsaw last year, Iga Swiatek hung out with friends and made new ones, but didn’t dare tell them about a doping case that was hanging over her. “Obviously, in the back of my mind,” she said Saturday evening at the All England Club, “I had this thing.” There was more going on, …

Novak Djokovic said he must accept the reality that his ageing body continues to make it extremely difficult for him to win another grand slam title after struggling physically in his emphatic defeat by the world No 1, Jannik Sinner, in the semi-finals of Wimbledon on Friday. A month after suffering a straight sets defeat by Sinner in the semi-finals …

Research has shown that, while riding a stationary bike, people judged a 30‑second time interval about 9 percent too quickly. Their perception of time became distorted during exercise such that the external clock felt sluggish while their legs were flying. Andrew M. Edwards, a sports scientist at Canterbury Christ Church University, led the research alongside collaborators at the University of …