Before the pandemic, I was a parenting expert. I advised them to write a “family media contract” and trust, but verify, their tweens’ doings online. Parenting expert? I finished my parenting book about screen time on that maternity leave, which was kind of like writing up lab results before the experiment was finished. By the way, “zombie fires” are eating the Arctic and they are as terrifying as they sound.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2020 17:15 UTC