Emily Oster and the rise of the optimization parent. What gets lost when we approach pregnancy and raising children through data? In February of 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

For $150, the Oster Versa gives you the tools you need to blend anything you can think to throw at it. Managing its many accessories is confusing and tedious, and a lot of the plastic pieces are ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

"As you get into having older kids, there are very few things which can be fully answered with data because kids are so different," Oster says. "And so that makes the data helpful but incomplete in a ...

Emily Oster is sitting in the back of a car, checking her Garmin watch as we lurch through rush-hour traffic toward the Holland Tunnel. The Brown University economist doesn't like to keep people ...

A famed brand that’s been around since the 1920s, Oster is synonymous with kitchen equipment that is top quality and affordable. Whether you’re looking for a large-capacity blender for holiday cooking ...

If there’s one small appliance that gets a lot of use in a kitchen, it’s a blender. If you’re in need of a new one, it’s worth considering an Oster blender. Oster boasts an impressive family of ...

The French-door appliances have already injured some people, including two cases of second-degree burns The Oster TSSTTVFDDG French door countertop oven (shown) is one of four models recalled. By ...

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Bucking The System. In summer 2020, parents faced so many unknowns when it came to sending kids to school. Economist Emily Oster describes how she started ...

Long before I started testing and reviewing products, the Oster Fast Feed hair clipper became a staple in my life. I had always maintained a short buzz cut growing up, which meant a trip to the Great ...