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Prufrock451
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Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals
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Fetuses shed cells, and mothers carry some of those for the rest of their lives. It boosts their immune system. A father loses something like 1/3 of his testosterone just from being around a baby, which also boosts his immune system. Evolution is crazy, man
Like, having a kid literally retools your body to invest more in not dying
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Prufrock451
@prufrock451.bsky.social
Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals
421 followers511 following1.1k posts