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• Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

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  Simple, Yeast, Reason

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• Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

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  Photography, Moments, Lifetime

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• When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

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  Sibling, Dark, Later In Life

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• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

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  Children, Sibling, School

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• When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

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  Past, Saving, Eras

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

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  Giving, Energy, Glimpse

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• What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

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  Play, Injury, Spinal Cord Injuries

  "A Breakthrough at Last for Spinal-Cord-Injury Research?" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. July 31, 2012.

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• We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

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  Ideas, Understanding, Rakes

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• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

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  Immature, Environmental, Tissues

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• There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

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  Long, Victory, Done

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• There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

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  Good Intentions, Making Changes, Stores

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• There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.

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  Mean, May, Language

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• There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.

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  Walking Dead, Police, Looks

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• The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

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  Giving, Feelings, Looks

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• Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

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  Art, Practice, May

  "We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging" by Jeffrey Kluger, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

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  Butterfly, Cockroaches, Consciousness

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• A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

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  Arguing, Holes, Made

  "Ben Stein Dukes it Out with Darwin" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Kids are anarchy writ large.

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  Kids, Anarchy

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• Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

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  Speak, Remarkable

  "Understanding How the Brain Speaks Two Languages" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. April 23, 2013.

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• More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

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  Player, Nfl, Brain

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

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  Home, Divorce, My Family

  Jeffrey Kluger (2011). “The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us”, p.10, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Sibling, Long, Half

  Jeffrey Kluger (2011). “The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us”, p.10, Penguin

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• Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.

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  Girl, Brother, Boys

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• We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

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  Sibling, Broken, Important

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• Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

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  Brother, Together, Building

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