You're right, and I hope you saw NPR's April Fools prank last month because you would definitely enjoy it: http://gawker.com/npr-pulled-a-b…

Yeah, my parents were also fed up with my requests for natural / organic / healthy foods. I think many parents see it as a threat, as though their children are questioning their parenting abilities. (To be fair, I sort of was.)

Not to mention bias. Clearly a lot of people are fed up with the gluten-free movement, for reasons that I simply cannot understand. I don't see why scientists would be excluded. Chances are, there are tons of scientists and peer-reviewers who would like to see the gluten-free movement fail. The impact of bias in…

C.A., I'm usually a big fan of your work, but when you put a purposefully misleading headline on a piece, it seems odd to get angry at every commenter and post the same paragraph in response over and over and over. If SO MANY people aren't understanding what you were saying, maybe your headline was the problem.

But doesn't the term "con artist" imply that she was conning someone out of something, like money or services? It sounds like she was just going to school, and paying (reduced) tuition. Not exactly a con. I think the reason people are jumping to mental illness here is because the story is so bizarre — it's not clear…

YES!! It is time for men to start wearing well-fitting shorts. Short and sporty, knee-length and slim-cut — I don't care. I am just so sick of seeing grown men walking around like they are in toddler shorts meant to accommodate a full diaper.

There's also much less movement over the decades with boys' names than girls'. Just look at the Top 10 from 50 years ago (1963). The boys' names would all be completely normal for a baby boy today, but most of the girls' names seem very dated:

I know I posted this on yesterday's names post, but can we please discuss "Nevaeh"? To me, it is the most bizarre rising star among baby names. Oh, and it's an abomination.

That said, let's talk about the real insult to America's intelligence: Nevaeh.

I really don't think most parents are choosing "Brooklyn" because they are chasing the hipster haven vibe. Looking at naming trends, Brooklyn was destined to happen.

Hugs to you, and I'm so happy it worked out for both of us! This is my first pregnancy, but I was completely caught off-guard because I am otherwise healthy and am not used to getting scary test results. I decided to do genetic screening assuming that everything would come back completely normal, which I now realize…

Thanks! I just wanted to add that I don't think abortion has to be an emotionally-fraught decision for everyone. Lord knows I would have chosen abortion with much less agony if I had accidentally gotten pregnant at a young age. But I agree that there needs to be a better dialogue with people on the right about the…

Thank you. I feel incredibly lucky that everything worked out for me. Stories like your friends' are especially important because right-wingers are constantly trying to push back the cut-off time for abortions. Do they think that people choose late-term abortions on a whim? If they are concerned about women making…

Thank you for the kind words. :)

This is especially boneheaded because literally everyone who has ever had an abortion was pregnant. Didn't stop them.

That is just awful. How did you get screaming maniacs to calm down and listen to you? I think that these protesters lack empathy or imagination, and forcing them to see these women as real humans with real problems must have been eye-opening. I hope you changed a few minds that day.

Thank you. It was awful.

It was a HUGE relief!! Studies show that people overestimate how happy they will be if they receive good medical news, but that hasn't been true for me. I found out last Thursday and I've been riding high for 5 days now!

This hits really close to home for me. I am 18 weeks pregnant and have always been strongly pro-choice. When I first saw my baby squirming around on an ultrasound at 12 weeks, I wondered whether my personal views on abortion were changing, i.e. whether abortion would be off-limits for me, personally, in the future; I…

I think this is a great idea. If I had boys, I think it would be fun to get them a male babysitter / teen role model. I'm sure girls can be little boys' role models, too, but why leave out the teenage boys?