The Stateside Journal

For the first time since at least 1990, in 2023, more babies were born to women aged 40 and older than to teenagers in the United States.
According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), teen births have continued to fall sharply since 1990, while births to women over 40 have risen. In 2023, babies born to mothers over 40 accounted for about 4.1% of all births, slightly surpassing the 4.0% share for births to teenagers.
The shift reflects long-term trends: teen birth rates have reached historic lows, while more women are choosing to have children later in life—a change researchers link to factors like career planning, delayed family formation, and advances in reproductive technology.

In Stockholm, 1833, a young milk seller from Dalarna became so famous for her beauty that huge crowds gathered just to stare at her.
One day, the crowd got so thick it blocked an entire street. Police summoned her for “closing the street with her beauty.” After questioning her, they decided she’d done nothing wrong — and sent her back to selling milk.
Possibly the only person in history accused of causing a traffic jam… for being too beautiful.

A medical case report describes a young man whose déjà vu became so persistent it affected daily life.
His symptoms were reported since early 2007, soon after he started university, and his anxiety and low mood led him to take a break from his studies. He even said he sometimes felt “trapped in a time loop.”
By 2010, he avoided TV and reading papers because everything felt already seen. Doctors ran neurological tests commonly used when epilepsy is suspected, including EEG and MRI, and both were normal.
The authors note that déjà vu is often discussed in relation to temporal lobe epilepsy, but in this case they suggest a psychological cause.