how it is managed, how it is played, who is best suited to play it and why.

There were all sorts of ancillary traits in a hitter -- the number of pitches he saw per plate appearance, for instance -- that had concrete value to a baseball offense but that were treated by most baseball people as worthless.

Batting average wasn't usually worth what it cost, but on-base percentage was usually worth a great deal more.

allowing students some flexibility in how they become engaged in the classroom

why shouldn’t we value someone who hasn’t had the chance to play as highly as someone who plays as well as anyone in the land

and so there is increasing pressure on medical schools to pay attention to interpersonal skills as well as to test scores.

A college quarterback joining the N.F.L., by contrast, has to learn to play an entirely new game.

They had succeeded at Missouri because they were strong and fast and skilled, and these traits translate in kind to professional football.

Can he be productive in a new kind of offense?

if you don’t use your eyes to move the defender a little bit, they’ll break on the ball and intercept it.

faster and more complicated

Robert Maudsley

“Hannibal Lecter” Robert Maudsley, you might take a fellow inmate hostage, smash his skull in and sample his brains with a spoon as nonchalantly as if you were downing a soft-boiled egg.

“This is for men.”

completely unfazed

Today, 70–75 percent of self-identified Democrats and liberals believe humans are changing the climate—a level that has remained stable or risen slightly over the past decade. In sharp contrast, Republicans, particularly Tea Party members, have overwhelmingly chosen to reject the scientific consensus. In some regions, only about 20 percent of self-identified Republicans accept the science.

A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause the climate to change. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number of Americans who agreed was down to 44 percent—well under half the population.

I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism

the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren’t going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is

What happens at work, in the factory, or in the office can only be escaped from by approximation to it in one’s leisure time.

cognitive work

adrenaline impacts memory.

propranolol

Anewstereotypeofautisticpeopleasbrainiacs,endowedwithquirkysuperminds,isjustasmisguidedastheoldassumptionthatautisticpeoplearementallydisabled

LarshadalwaysenjoyedLegos,andtalkingtootherparents,Sonneheardstoriesabouthowthetoybricksbroughtoutremarkable,hiddenabilities.

Theconceptofsociallymandateddishonestywouldmystifyhim,

Modernofficeculture—withitsunwrittenrulesofbehavior,itsfluidandsociallydemandingworkspaces—canbehostileterritoryforautisticpeople,whodobetterinpredictableenvironmentsandwhotendtobeclumsyatshapingtheirprioritiesaroundotherpeople’srequirements.

In2009,scientistsatKing’sCollegeLondonconcludedthataboutathirdofautisticmaleshave“someformofoutstandingability.”

AteamofCanadianscientistspublishedapaperin2007showingthatmeasuresofintelligencevarywildly,dependingonwhattestisused.

triestoshieldthemfromtheusualstressesofofficework,

(Or, using another metaphor, if the brain is an orchestra, then the neurochemical approach focuses on how well individual players listen and respond to the players adjacent to them; the network approach, like a conductor, focuses on how the orchestra's sections — strings, winds, brass, etc. — coordinate and balance volume and tone. When both are working well, you've got music.)

That’s it. One man, one fish, no processing plants, no nosy government inspectors. My life was, in fact, in Hashimoto’s hands.

one that’s most likely to kill me dead.

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And she feels it is because I'm worried about losing people, like I lost my parents, so I don't ever put myself in a position to lose.

More than I believe in the sanctity of union and promise, I believe that everybody cheats.

If you are about to say something that's going to crush me, then don't take me to my favorite restaurant and do it to me over wine.

But you can't have it now so you need it.

Maybe an actual individual needs to heal you, says a friend of mine to me.

People in affairs are hackneyed. They talk about what would have happened if we had met five years ago, seven years ago, twenty-four years ago, if you had been alive then.

Once a cheater, always a cheater.

Days after she'd been told by her husband that he's leaving not for anyone in particular but only because he doesn't love her anymore,

I love X, but I don't know if I can live a life with him knowing what's out there.

ToughLove was for kids on drugs. I didn’t think that was a problem we had with Eric

Sometimes my mom would throw me out and sometimes I would just leave

“the right to search a student, his/ her belongings and his/her vehicle .

Now he had given up the fight, and he was having fun.

drug and alcohol

Curt Hersey joined what he now calls “the bad crowd.

You know, the band kids may be nerdy, but there’s 60 of them, and they get in a bus and joke around.

go to fringe groups because they are the easiest to fit in with. There are no standards; they don’t have to compete. But just as the group is the easiest to get into, it’s the easiest to fall out of, and when they fall, there is no support

No one escapes the specter of risk.

Seeing women for money, made me a little less sad. It was a brief respite from loneliness, from my skin being hungry for human touch the way a drowning person is starving for oxygen.

girlfriend certainly didn’t know she existed.

And I felt very remorseful when I learned this.And then I did it again.

It’s like with drug use

You’re in this for a connection. Physical—but also emotional

it pales in comparison to a real loving relationship with somebody who you are sexually compatible with, but it sure as fuck beats being alone and feeling untouchable.

As Ken Livingston wrote in The Public Interest in 1997, "In late twentieth-century America, when it is difficult or inconvenient to change the environment, we don't think twice about changing the brain of the person who has to live in it." And as Howe and Strauss wrote in Millennials Rising, "Ironically, where young Boomers once turned to drugs to prompt impulses and think outside the box, today they turn to drugs to suppress their kids' impulses and keep their behavior inside the box ... Nowadays, Dennis the Menace would be on Ritalin, Charlie Brown on Prozac."

The Newsweek special issue provides information about the creature parents will be sculpting.

At the schools and colleges where the next leadership class is being bred, one finds not angry revolutionaries, despondent slackers, or dark cynics but the Organization Kid.

The Gap's television ads don't show edgy individualists; they show perky conformists, a bunch of happy kids all wearing the same clothes and all swing-dancing the same moves.

Not only at Princeton but also in the rest of the country young people today are more likely to defer to and admire authority figures.

The authors paint a picture of incredibly wholesome youths who will correct the narcissism and nihilism of their Boomer parents.

The amount of time spent watching TV declined by 23 percent. Meanwhile, the amount of time spent studying increased by 20 percent and the amount of time spent doing organized sports increased by 27 percent. Drive around your neighborhood.

It is this elite that I am primarily reporting on in this article, rather than the whole range of young people across the demographic or SAT spectrum. It should also be said, though, that the young elite are not entirely unlike the other young; they are the logical extreme of America's increasingly efficient and demanding sorting-out process,

Many of the students were upset, but not enough to protest. "It wasn't rational to buck authority once you found out what the penalties were," one student journalist told me. "The university said they would suspend you from school for a year." A prudential ethos indeed.

Aaron Friedberg, who teaches international relations, said, "It's very rare to get a student to challenge anything or to take a position that's counter to what the professor says."

They're not trying to buck the system; they're trying to climb it, and they are streamlined for ascent.

Everyone I spoke to felt confident that he or she could get a good job after graduation.

he has sharp features, a gentle voice, and an upright, stiff gait. Though he is a millennial, he has a slightly ageless quality

Soylent isn’t coming for our Sunday potlucks. It’s coming for our frozen quesadillas.

Drinking Soylent was saving him time and money: his food costs had dropped from four hundred and seventy dollars a month to fifty.

He tried out his own version of “Super Size Me,” living on McDonald’s dollar meals and five-dollar pizzas from Little Caesars

Rhinehart compiled a list of thirty-five nutrients required for survival.

He began to think that food was an inefficient way of getting what he needed to survive.

Hayward came to consider Vaillant as “the embodiment of healthy aging—mentally, emotionally, and everything. He’s the person we’d all hope to end up to be.”But Vaillant’s closest friends and family tell a very different story, of a man plagued by distance and strife in his relationships. “George is someone who holds things in,” says the psychiatrist James Barrett Jr., his oldest friend. “I don’t think he has many confidants. I would call George someone who has a problem with intimacy.”

According to Dr. Vaillant’s model of adaptations, the very way we deal with reality is by distorting it—and we do this unconsciously. When we start pulling at this thread, an awfully big spool of thoughts and questions begins to unravel onto the floor.

temperamental “set points” for happiness—a predisposition to stay at a certain level of happiness—account for a large, but not overwhelming, percentage of our well-being.

marriage and faith lead to happiness (or it could be that happy people are more likely to be married and spiritual)

that money does little to make us happier once our basic needs are met;

How is it that children are often found to be a source of “negative affect” (sadness, anger)—yet people identify children as their greatest source of pleasure?

Ask a Dane, and you will hear “Det kunne være værre (It could be worse).” “Danes have consistently low (and indubitably realistic) expectations for the year to come,” a team of Danish scholars concluded. “Year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark.”

But what does it mean, really, to be happier?

positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones. One reason is that they’re future-oriented.

Last October, I watched him give a lecture to Seligman’s graduate students on the power of positive emotions—awe, love, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy, hope, and trust (or faith). “The happiness books say, ‘Try happiness. You’ll like it a lot more than misery’

For example, while he allows that, in mortality rates, the inner-city men at age 68 to 70 resembled the Terman and Harvard cohorts at 78 to 80, he says that most of the difference can be explained by less education, more obesity, and greater abuse of alcohol and cigarettes.

“It does have to do with hitting bottom. Someone sleeping under the elevated-train tracks can at some point recognize that he’s an alcoholic, but the guy getting stewed every night at a private club may not.”

industriousness in childhood—as indicated by such things as whether the boys had part-time jobs, took on chores, or joined school clubs or sports teams—predicted adult mental health better than any other factor, including family cohesion and warm maternal relationships.

“That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

Again and again, Vaillant has returned to his major preoccupations. One is alcoholism

He also found that personality traits assigned by the psychiatrists in the initial interviews largely predicted who would become Democrats (descriptions included “sensitive,” “cultural,” and “introspective”) and Republicans (“pragmatic” and “organized”).

What factors don’t matter? Vaillant identified some surprises.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance isn’t out to end domestic work, but by calling for fair standards and better wages, its members are saying that the work they do is as valuable as any other kind of work, and that it is not the “natural” place of women, mainly women of color and immigrant women, to clean up after others.

the decision to hire women as teachers was made, as the nation moved to providing public schools, because women were cheaper—and politicians and public intellectuals concealed that reasoning by portraying women as natural carers, morally superior angels.

It is, of course, the argument of the Right that women freely choose lower-paid work because they prefer caring professions or more free time to spend with their children.

the retail behemoth exploited the specific skills of Southern white Christian women going to work outside the home for the first time as much as their willingness to work for little pay because they’d never been paid before.

even in retail, women make only 90 percent of what men make.

Some 60 percent of the jobs lost in the public sector were held by women, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And women have regained only 12 percent of the jobs lost during the recession, while men have regained 63 percent of the jobs they lost.

women in the restaurant industry earn 83 cents to a man’s dollar.

, a 45-year-old woman who says her husband is unable to perform sexually, has been using the personals for the past two years to find ''playmates'' to consort with during her husband's frequent business trips

think she'll be just a bit heavier than she looks in her pictures, since she did not list her weight anywhere. I think we will get along very quickly. It would be out of line to assume that we're going to have sex, but I think it's a definite possibility

r was the problem that, as a way of making conversation, she had mentioned a conflict she was having with a neighbor -- did the lawyer think she was grubbing for free legal advice? Or could it have been her personality? ''On a first date I laugh, I smile, but I don't crack jokes,'' she reflected. ''So I was thinking, Maybe he wanted someone who was fun immediately.'

For younger people, who grew up with instant-messaging programs, e-mail will often lead to an instant-message exchange (or several), followed by a meeting; those over 30 tend to prefer the phone.

pointed out that ‘70 per cent of the antibiotics used in the United States now are not used on people, they’re used on animals in agriculture, because we keep them in such inhumane, overcrowded conditions’. He then reeled off a list of UN-backed statistics: ‘18 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production. We’re also using something like 1,500 gallons of water to produce just one pound of meat. Meat takes up about 70 per cent of our arable lands.’

pointed out that ‘70 per cent of the antibiotics used in the United States now are not used on people, they’re used on animals in agriculture, because we keep them in such inhumane, overcrowded conditions’. He then reeled off a list of UN-backed statistics: ‘18 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production. We’re also using something like 1,500 gallons of water to produce just one pound of meat. Meat takes up about 70 per cent of our arable lands.’

A scientific landmark was sold to us in the manner of a glitzy product launch, a piece of corporate puff.

commercial production of meat that has been grown in a lab rather than reared and slaughtered.

first proper portion of cultured meat, a beef burger created by Mark Post,

the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

All too often, these seemingly smaller issues go unchecked because there are so many more serious issues facing women.

Other times, white feminists are simply dismissive of these issues.

The problem goes even beyond the corporate interests that have brought us

hese include imposing a “fat tax” on caloric snacks, improving health education, regulating food and beverage advertising, limiting the foods available in public facilities, and insuring access to sidewalks and bike paths.

It has been estimated that the extra pounds carried by Americans add ninety billion dollars a year to the country’s medical spending.

Type 2 diabetes, coronary disease, hypertension, various kinds of cancers—including colorectal and endometrial—gallstones, and osteoarthritis are just some of the conditions that have been linked to excess weight.

Although nearly a billion of the world’s most impoverished citizens still suffer from too few calories

To claim that some people are just meant to be fat is not quite the same as arguing that some people are just meant to be poor, but it comes uncomfortably close.

Weight, by their account, is, like race or sex or bone structure, a biological trait over which individuals have no—or, in the case of fat, very limited—control.

For someone who is in the habit of eating a bagel a day, these extra calories translate into a weight gain of more than a pound a month.

“Give them a lot and they eat a lot,”

The result is that as French-fry bags get bigger, so, too, do French-fry eaters.

supersizing.

“Conditioned hypereating works the same way as other ‘stimulus response’ disorders in which reward is involved, such as compulsive gambling and substance abuse.”

product-development expert

race, the folk wisdom turns out to be true. An African American family with the same income, family size, and other demographics as a white family will spend about 25 percent more of its income on jewelry, cars, personal care, and apparel. For the average black family, making about $40,000 a year, that amounts to $1,900 more a year than for a comparable white family. To make up the difference, African Americans spend much less on education, health care, entertainment, and home furnishings. (The same is true of Latinos.)

Need we wonder if even for a moment it ever occurred to them that rich people have feelings, too?

changes in the autonomic nervous system

Unlike the robot yentas of yore (Match.com, OkCupid, eHarmony), which out-competed one another with claims of compatibility algorithms and secret love formulas, the only promise Tinder makes is to show you the other users in your immediate vicinity.

it’s this philosophy problem where you have an ass that’s equidistant from two piles of food, and he starves to death in the middle.”

If you squinted, you might believe you were watching a group of unusually small college players

Bryce Harper

Because of his arm, and because of his team, Jarrod has a list of things that he won't do, or can't do, by decree of his parents, who are usually thinking ahead to the next baseball game. He will not, for example, jump on a trampoline. When his friends from school hold their birthday parties at a rock-climbing facility, Jarrod does not go. He does not play pickup basketball at school, and if it is the week before a tournament, he sits out of gym class. If he goes swimming in the backyard pool, he's careful not to get sunburned or tired out. He is not allowed to skateboard or ride a scooter.

Already, some use their iPods to tune out their parents in the car on the way to games.

A pesky wind caused the infield dirt to swirl.

There was a time when being a baseball parent

as young as 6

kids are basically isolated from "normal" childhood in order to refine their physical gifts

And it privileges the voice over the face, when the voice and the face are equally significant channels in the same system.

What that says is that this is an accessible skill.

Imagine if there were a switch that all of us had, to turn off the expressions on our face at will

a look of utter despair flashed across her face so quickly that it was almost imperceptible.

FACS

Happiness, for instance, is essentially A.U. six and twelve– contracting the muscles that raise the cheek (orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis) in combination with the zygomatic major, which pulls up the corners of the lips

“Oooh! You’ve got a fantastic thirty-nine. That’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s genetic. There should be other members of your family who have this heretofore unknown talent. You’ve got it, you’ve got it.” He laughed again. “You’re in a position to flash it at people. See, you should try that in a singles bar!

Ekman and Friesen identified about three thousand that did seem to mean something, until they had catalogued the essential repertoire of human emotion.

‘I’ve got to learn the anatomy.’ ” Friesen and Ekman then combed through medical textbooks that outlined each of the facial muscles, and identified every distinct muscular movement that the face could make

If a male horse, for instance, had lost to a mare in his first or second year, he would be ruined if he went to the gate with a mare next to him in the lineup.

I hope the pea coat still fits him next winter.

I was flirting with disaster, publicly.

The thing that surprises me the most, however, is that in retrospect I appear to have felt confident or comfortable enough, in the eyes of the world, to wear that shirt—many times

I find this memory

TheonlywayTDCcanbesureofcatchingthemistoloadthesoftwareontoaphoneandpunchthephonekeysoverandoveragain,followingalengthyscriptofatleast200instructions.

heslowlyconceivedabusinessplan:manycompaniesstruggletofindworkerswhocanperformspecific,oftentedioustasks,likedataentryorsoftwaretesting;someautisticpeoplewouldbeexceptionallygoodatthosetasks.

Heslidafingeralongtheatlas,movingfromboxtobox,comparingthesourcewithhisson’scopy.Everynumbermatched.Larshadreproducedtheentirespread,frommemory,withoutanerror.“Iwasstunned,absolutely,”Sonnetoldme.

LarsknewthetrainschedulesofallofDenmark’smajorroutes.

He admitted that there was little discussion about intellectual matters outside class.

"I just had an appointment with my best friend at seven this morning,"

I asked around about this and was told that most students have no time to read newspapers, follow national politics, or get involved in crusades.

she could afford that much

One young man told me that he had to schedule appointment times for chatting with his friends.

Churchill quote about democracy being the worst system of government, except for all the others. I mean, we all know geoengineering’s bad, now tell me what’s better

I drove back to Stanford, mindful that the carbon dioxide emanating from my tailpipe would persist in the atmosphere for hundreds of years

There is no solving the problem. There is no solving the problem. All it is is slowing the symptoms.”

If “turning down the sun” sounds like a patently bad idea for plant life, Caldeira has run the numbers on that too

According to Teodor Postolache, a psychiatrist and the director of the Mood and Anxiety Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a flurry of other studies, several conducted by his own team, offers further support of T. gondii’s link to higher rates of suicidal behavior

Twelve of 44 schizophrenia patients who underwent MRI scans, the team found, had reduced gray matter in the brain—and the decrease occurred almost exclusively in those who tested positive for T. gondii.

but it wasn't often he had been knocked out on his pitch

Women make less money, exert less political influence, have their clitorises cut out (actually really truly — Google it), and are widely thought of as property and treated like poop. Privilege is real,

In this world, peace of mind is a utopian concept.

You can become special by working really hard for a long time.

Lucy, on the other hand, finds herself constantly taunted by a modern phenomenon: Facebook Image Crafting.

They often feel entitled to a level of respect and rewards that aren't in line with their actual ability and effort levels,

Schulz

When you feel yourself smile, you imagine a cartoon of smiling, not the complete skin-and-nose-and-hair package

All feminists are angry instead of passionate.

“You’re some kind of feminist, aren’t you?” His tone made it clear that to be a feminist was undesirable. I was not being a good woman. I remained silent, stewing. I thought, “Isn’t it obvious I am a feminist, albeit not a very good one?”

called electric tubes

cacophony

frenetic opposite of Alfred

That's the "absent-minded professor," who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question

No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else.

So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad?

number of psychopathic attributes were actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals—attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus.

Psychopaths, without batting an eye, are perfectly happy to chuck the fat guy over the side.

the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans