Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

We don't wife our husbands and we don't child our parents.

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.