It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

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

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.