Sadoway Does More Than Entertain; He Gives

Identical Twins Are Ideal Lab Specimens For Studying The Difference Between Learned And Inherited Traits Since They Come From The Womb Preloaded With Matching Genetic Operating Systems. Any Meaningful Differences In Their Behaviors Or Personalities Are Thus Likely To Have Been Acquired, Not Innate.

The Brain Sits Snugly Inside The Skull, But It's Not A Completely Flush Fit - There Is Still A Layer Of Fluid Between Bone And Soft Tissue That Serves As A Natural Shock Absorber. Some Shocks, However, Can't Be Absorbed, And When The Head Gets Clobbered Too Hard, The Brain Can Twist Or Torque Or Rattle Around Inside Its Skeletal Casing.

There's Only One Thing Harder Than Living In A Home With An Adolescent - And That's Being An Adolescent. The Moodiness, The Volatility, The Wholesale Lack Of Impulse Control, All Would Be Close To Clinical Conditions If They Occurred At Another Point In Life. In Adolescence, They're Just Part Of The Behavioral Portfolio.

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.

I Grew Up In A Suburb Of Baltimore With An Extremely High Concentration Of Jewish Families - Where The Levys And Cohens In The High School Yearbook Went On For Pages, Where I Could Count Far More Temples Than I Ever Could Churches. Anti-semitism, In Our Cultural Biodome, Was Mostly An Abstract Concept.