Stuff You Wish Would Go In Your Book But Won’t
Last year I talked to a primatologist in his mid-80s, still sharp, still in his office most days, a pleasant spot in California, surrounded by his books and by ...
Tag: Orchid Children
Is Sensitivity a Curse or a Blessing? My Latest on The Orchid-Dandelion Hypothesis
As faithful readers know, I’m working on a book, provisionally titled The Orchid and the Dandelion and likely to be published next year, about the orchid-...
Tiger Moms and Orchid Children
I thought I’d heard enough about Tiger Moms, but perked up when I came across Tiger Moms and Orchid Kids, by Sam Gridley. Gridley considers how presumably...
The Bright Side of the “Depression-Risk Gene”
The reclamation of the “depression gene” proceeds apace: In a paper titled “Looking on the Bright Side of Serotonin Transporter Gene Variation...
How I Wrote “The Orchid Children,” via Open Notebook
A promising new website about science writing, The Open Notebook, features an interview with me about the genesis of my Atlantic article of last year on the gen...
London Calling: I’m off to the UK for a year or two
As I'm packing to move there for a year or two, I was pleased to find, at the splendid site " Samuel Johnson Soundbites ," that it bears even more fully on my o...