If You're An Older Sibling And You

No One Ever Pretended That Shopping For Anything Is A Rational Experience. If It Were, Would There Be Fluffernutter? Laceless Sneakers? Porkpie Hats? Would The Chia Pet Even Exist?

The Best Thing About Science Is That Hard, Empirical Answers Are Always There If You Look Hard Enough. The Best Thing About Religion Is That The Very Absence Of That Certainty Is What Requires - And Gives Rise To - Deep Feelings Of Faith.

Ambition Is An Expensive Impulse, One That Requires An Enormous Investment Of Emotional Capital. Like Any Investment, It Can Pay Off In Countless Different Kinds Of Coin.

Older Fatherhood Isn't All Bad: Testosterone Rates Drop About 1% Per Year As Men Age, Making Them Less Reactive And More Patient, And A Professionally Established Middle-aged Man Is Likely To Have More Time And Money To Devote To His Kids Than A Twenty-something Who's Just Getting Started.

Why Are Some People Born With A Fire In The Belly, While Others Need Something To Get Their Pilot Light Lit?