Because there are more fat people in America now than normal-weight people (and I use the word “normal” very deliberately and I hope very offensively to my targets), it is becoming more common to shame skinny and healthy people than the opposite.

I was friends with a woman during the 90s who was very fit. She had a baby and gained 19 pounds during the entire pregnancy (I know because she told me). The baby was healthy and weighed 8+ pounds. She was back at her pre-baby weight (about 120 pounds at 5’8″) in less than six weeks.

She was a bit anomalous and I know that every person is different, but it is doubtful that during humanity’s history that women gained 60+ pounds for pregnancy as is the standard now.

Working out during pregnancy only helps you, if you can. Not gaining massive amounts of weight helps, not hurts. The evidence shows this.

Fat people aren’t disgusting, but the whole fat acceptance/fat celebration culture certainly is.

Only in America would you attempt to force people on a wide scale to something that is obviously harmful, deleterious to a good life and objectively terrible rather than making the damn effort to change and improve.

What a country!

I do not like articles that are so dumbed down that they do not use the scientifically-accurate words for phenomena.

What this article should have had — somewhere — is that butterflies are so colorful mostly due to aposematism and Batesian mimicry.

One of the reasons I completely stopped reading books aimed at kids at five or six is that I figured out they were completely stripped of real content that might help me be smarter. Though many of the books I tackled at that age were “over my head,” my head quickly grew larger and soon — within a year or so — no book was over my head.

I think most kids are probably capable of this, though in my near-complete disdain of what any adult said or thought was probably highly unusual.

Anyway, science articles should contain the correct terminology otherwise it makes it very hard for people to learn more if they choose to do so. This is particularly harmful to young people who are often more receptive and open to new knowledge and fun words than adults.