There's A Universe Inside Your

We Are All Born With An Innate Understanding Of Interpersonal Equity - The Idea That If You Lend Me Your Rake Today, I'll Respond In Kind When You Come To Borrow My Shovel Tomorrow. Or Nearly All Of Us Are Born With That. Psychopaths Aren't.

The Mind Of The Polyglot Is A Very Particular Thing, And Scientists Are Only Beginning To Look Closely At How Acquiring A Second Language Influences Learning, Behavior And The Very Structure Of The Brain Itself.

It's Not Mere Extremism That Makes Folks At The Fringes So Troubling; It's Extremism Wedded To False Beliefs. Humans Have Long Been Dupes, Easily Gulled By Rumors And Flat-out Lies.

A Mere Ape In Our World May Be A Scholar In Its Own, And The Low Life Of Any Beast May Be A Source Of Deep Satisfaction For The Beast Itself.

When You're Your Parents' One Shot At A Genetic Legacy, You May Get To Attend All The Best Schools, Wear All The Best Clothes And Eat All The Best Foods - At Least Relative To Children In Multiple-sibling Households. But You Also Wind Up With An Overweening Sense Of Your Own Importance.