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Would My Mom Have Lived Longer? The Strange, Existential Math Of Parenthood

Parents throwing punches. The ways we try — and fail — to coexist. Bill Watterson and ambition. Calvin & Hobbes and the adult world. Do kids worsen our quality of life? Would my mom have lived 13 more years?

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Future Society

Sad? Happy? Happier? My Eight Weeks On A Happiness App

Happiness applications promise to make users measurably happier in eight weeks. But is happiness a skill that can be taught? For Die Zeit, science writer Maria Mast put an app to the test.

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