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News Round-Up Feb. 17: More Interracial Marriages, Arsenic in Baby Formula and No Tenure for Moms in Math and Science

What we’re reading today:

1. Very important news for all moms unable to breastfeed: Your baby formula might have arsenic in it. Stay away from products sweetened with brown rice syrup!

2. More Americans are saying that interracial marriage is a good thing. As people who live in the most ethnically diverse city in the world, we’re proud of the Americans in the survey.

3. Bad news for science-y moms hoping to secure a tenure-track position at your local ivory tower: A new study shows that motherhood and math and science research is basically incompatible. So no procreating for Drs. Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler, then?

4. Inequality seems to be on the rise in Canadian public schools — why?

5. Grab the kleenex! It’s time for another inspiring and sweet video about gay parents raising awesome kids:

News and Culture Five

News Round-Up Nov. 29: Bribing Kids With Candy, No More Free Formula and Are Fairy Tales Too Dark For Kids?

What we’re reading today:

1. One mom’s story of her miracle baby.

2. Another mom’s dirty secret: bribing with candy.

3. Really classic fairy tales are pretty dark… are they for kids?

4. Rhode Island moms used to leave the hospitals with their new babies and some formula, now they just leave with the babies.

5. Oh trailer mash-ups! Wouldn’t you rather go see Alvin and the Chipmunks in Mission Impossible than actually have to sit through an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie? And Tom Cruise as Alvin? Awesome.

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