There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

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.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.