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How the 1990s Imagined the Future of Marriage Equality

Today was a historic day for equality, as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the misleadingly named Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Futurist thinkers have been imagining this day for years, and back in 1990 Newsweek gave hints about what marriage might look like in the world of tomorrow. DOMA was signed into law in…

Tech News Matt Novak

Awesome Grandparents Created Ridiculously Awesome Tree House Mansion for Their Grandkids

It’s nice to be a grandparent because you can enjoy spending time with your grandkids without worrying about the minutia of parenting. Plus, it’s your second go around with little rascals so you get to have fun with it. Like Steve and Jeri Wakefield, two grandparents who are having so much fun at being awesome…

Tech News Casey Chan

Get Pregnant Today, Get a Free Ikea Crib in 9 Months

Cheap people of Australia: run! Don’t walk! To the nearest location where you can get pregnant. Ikea is doling out free cribs to babies born nine months from today. The baby must come into the world on November 14, 2013. If that’s your due date or if you get knocked up today or sometime in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Sometimes all it takes is a cape to transform into someone’s superhero

Redditor resgestae spotted this pair in a hardware store and titled the resulting photo, “I know a good dad when I see one.” Here’s a guy who knows his kid is super and understands the power a symbolic article of clothing can lend to a hero—be they superpowered or just big-hearted. [reddit via Neatorama]

io9 Lauren Davis

Historical data reveals that having an older sibling can wreck your life

As a kid, having older siblings is either wonderful or horrible, depending on the day of the week, phase of the moon, or what stage of puberty they’re going through. But over the course of your lifespan, are they generally a force for good or evil? Well, if you look at the data, it’s a…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Thanksgiving Tech Support: Exactly How Much You Should Care About Everyone at Home

Your mom’s router is broken, your dad’s laptop is frozen, your aunt’s tablet is covered in bees, and they’re all looking at you, tech blog reader, to fix it before and after Turkey. Not all family is equal. Here’s how to prioritize. This is all well trod by now. You know the drill. You’ve been…

Tech News Sam Biddle

ChoreMonster: Bribe Your Kids to Set the Table

Make the bed, clean your room—chores are no fun, no matter how old you are. But ChoreMonster is trying to make them a bit more enjoyable for parents and kids. What does it do? ChoreMonster lets mom and dad assign chores with certain point values. Once kids amass a certain number of points, they can…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Childless Couple Turns to Twitter to Spread Story of Struggle to Adopt

Rick and Erica Jones have been trying to adopt a baby for the past three years. Unfortunately for the Michigan couple, their adoption agency (Morningstar Adoption Center) doesn’t have the means to market their clients—nor do the Jones’s have the enough money to pay for the services of a larger, more successful adoption agency. To…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Sex Selection Just Got Easier: Will Girls Be the Chosen Ones?

A new and simple blood test can predict the gender of a fetus after just seven weeks of pregnancy. It’s great for predicting gender-related diseases, but the specter of sex selection looms large. The funny thing is that while sex selection in favor of boys has historically been controversial in countries including India and China,…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Your Parents’ Opinion of Your Computer Skills Might Be a Little Inflated

Okay, so it’s a pain that every time the littlest thing goes wrong with parents’ computer you’re their go-to IT guy or gal. But let’s be honest: there’s something not terrible about being a sci-fi hero—even if the real Neo is a search engine. [TNW via 9gag]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

Why Google+? Your Parents Can’t Find You There

Presenting the next logical step in the “Google+ is good because it isn’t Facebook” argument: you’re much less in danger of constant parental surveillance. For now, anyway. Enjoy it while it lasts, tweens! [The Doghouse Diaries] https://gizmodo.com/should-you-friend-your-parents-on-facebook-5710785

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ancient graves suggest that family didn’t really matter 9,000 years ago

Çatalhöyük is one of the world’s most ancient settlements, founded in what is now Turkey around 7,500 BCE. New analysis of the village’s dead reveals something strange about this ancient village: nobody cared very much about family ties. First discovered in the 1950s, Çatalhöyük was once home to about 10,000 people and covered roughly 100,000…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Only 5% Of US Households Don’t Own A Microwave

Forty years ago, in 1971, only 5% of US households owned a microwave. Now, in 2011, only 5% don’t. I’m still waiting for the anti-microwave, which quickly chills something. [cspinet via Takeapart]

Tech News Jason Chen

The Worst Part of Coming Home for Christmas

I swear to fucking God, if I come home this Christmas and find out my parents are still unplugging their computer from the wall when they want to turn it off, I will fucking snap. Seriously, how fucking hard can it be? Click START, then click SHUT DOWN. That’s a TWO-step process that for the…

Tech News Jason M. Mustian - McSweeney's

The heart of Lost’s island discovered outside of Buffalo, NY

Lost’s mysterious cave, the heart of the island, was discovered just outside of Buffalo, New York. Get a better look at this totally natural phenomenon – just don’t expect a better series ending to be hiding in there, somewhere. The name of this waterfall is Eternal Flame Waterfall on Shale Creek in Chestnut Ridge Park…

Television Meredith Woerner

Google Teaches Your Parents Tech So You Don’t Have To

It’s an all-too familiar plight: every holiday season you head home for some togetherness and good cheer, and suddenly you’re a one-man tech support team for a family of techno-neophytes. But take heart! This year, Google’s on the job. https://gizmodo.com/its-a-little-weird-when-your-family-gets-geeky-5697492 Google’s Tech Support Care Package lets you preemptively send your folks videos on tech subjects…

Tech News Brian Barrett

WiFi Baby 3G System Turns Your iPhone Into a Baby Monitor

Why not turn your iPhone, iPad, or other device into a baby monitor? That way you can keep an eye on the little one no matter how far away you are while avoiding the static that plagues many traditional devices. The $279 device is a camera that also acts as a computer, offering a password-protected…

Tech News David Zax - FastCompany

It’s a Little Weird When Your Family Gets Geeky

As many prepare to trudge home for Thanksgiving, an old dread is in our hearts. Our poor, confused parents and their malfunctioning routers that need fixing. But maybe even scarier? Now they’re starting to embrace the same tech we do. One of the perkiest perks of having a tech savvy spawn is the comfort of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

In the ancient Amazon, children had many fathers – and women many lovers

Few cultures are as sexually liberated as those of the ancient Amazon rainforest. Nearly 70 percent of the tribes practiced multiple paternity, in which all of a woman’s sexual partners were fathers to her children. It was commonplace for people to be open about having multiple sexual partners in the ancient Amazon. Open sexual arrangements…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

“No Ordinary Family” won’t save superhero television

With Heroes off the air, ABC hopes to sate your appetite for superpowered television with No Ordinary Family, about a family of newly-minted superheroes. But this live-action Incredibles may find its origin story is its own greatest foe. Granted, the show’s writers had to pack a lot into the 44-minute pilot episode ABC showed this…

io9 Lauren Davis

How the 1990s Imagined the Future of Marriage Equality

Awesome Grandparents Created Ridiculously Awesome Tree House Mansion for Their Grandkids

Get Pregnant Today, Get a Free Ikea Crib in 9 Months

Sometimes all it takes is a cape to transform into someone’s superhero

Historical data reveals that having an older sibling can wreck your life

Thanksgiving Tech Support: Exactly How Much You Should Care About Everyone at Home

ChoreMonster: Bribe Your Kids to Set the Table

Childless Couple Turns to Twitter to Spread Story of Struggle to Adopt

Sex Selection Just Got Easier: Will Girls Be the Chosen Ones?

Your Parents’ Opinion of Your Computer Skills Might Be a Little Inflated

Why Google+? Your Parents Can’t Find You There

Ancient graves suggest that family didn’t really matter 9,000 years ago

Only 5% Of US Households Don’t Own A Microwave

The Worst Part of Coming Home for Christmas

The heart of Lost’s island discovered outside of Buffalo, NY

Google Teaches Your Parents Tech So You Don’t Have To

WiFi Baby 3G System Turns Your iPhone Into a Baby Monitor

It’s a Little Weird When Your Family Gets Geeky

In the ancient Amazon, children had many fathers – and women many lovers

“No Ordinary Family” won’t save superhero television

The Octopus Penis Arm Doesn’t Just Deliver Sperm—It Sniffs Out the Sweet Spot

Revisiting the Ending of ‘Chainsaw Man’ Through the Lens of Japanese Folklore

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