Last night my old college friend Matt and I went out for a drink at a dim cocktail bar in our Brooklyn neighborhood. We hadn’t seen each other in a month, and so had some catching up to do: How was his trip to Hawaii with his wife? What random projects was I working on? …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Taxicab Confessions
So this is a picture of my kid getting into the back of a cab, with no carseat, on Avenue B on Saturday. Am I a bad father? Oh yeah. Okay, so usually he’s in someone’s arms when we ride in a cab. And we don’t do this often, maybe a couple times a month. …
Your Kid’s Fearless? Hide the Silver.
An authoritatively large and long-term study reports that kids who are unusually fearless as toddlers are likelier to grow up into criminals than easily spooked kids are. The researchers say their work reinforces evidence that structural problems in one portion of the brain, called the amygdala, are to blame: They’re shared by both kids with …
The Entire World Is Evil, Why Should Hotels Be Different?
Interested in drilling your child in the finer points of false altruism? Thanks to Ritz-Carlton and its “Give Back Getaways,” you can do just that. The Getaways are the luxury hotel chain’s ridiculous effort at voluntourism, or a vacation that allows you to achieve self-congratulatory happiness and a dark, rich tan all at the same …
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