Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.