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Kids Are So Cute ... Until Age 4.5

Matt Cantor — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:35:05 CDT

No one's saying that 5-year-olds can't be adorable—but it appears that they're past their prime, in cuteness terms. Researchers in Canada and China polled adults on the cuteness factor of kids from infancy to 6 years old. Subjects called the younger children cuter, with a big shift at age...

Help! We're Being Killed by Cuteness

Harry Kimball — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:17:56 CST

There is an epidemic of cuteness in the country, Jim Windolf writes, symptomatic of our national desire to be loved and taken care of after 8 years of George W. Bush and a much-diminished standing in the world. The signs are everywhere: giggling babies, LOLcats, cupcakes, “cutegasms,” the Mini-Cooper. It...