There's A Universe Inside Your Head -

Never Mind What You've Heard. Halle Berry Was Not The First Black Woman To Win An Academy Award For Best Actress. She Was Actually The 74th White One. And Never Mind All This Talk About America Electing Its First Black President; Barack Obama Is Actually The 44th White Man To Hold The Job.

Vaccines Save Lives; Fear Endangers Them. It's A Simple Message Parents Need To Keep Hearing.

Credit Or Debit Cards, For Starters, Are Nothing Short Of Shoppers' Novocain. Even In The Age Of Digital Purchases And Virtual Money, We Still Attach A Special Value To Dirty Paper With Pictures Of Presidents On It. Handing Some Of That To A Cashier Simply Hurts More Than Handing Over A Little Sliver Of Plastic.

No One Ever Pretended That Shopping For Anything Is A Rational Experience. If It Were, Would There Be Fluffernutter? Laceless Sneakers? Porkpie Hats? Would The Chia Pet Even Exist?

In Both Children And Adults, There Can Be A Hard-to-deny Link Between A Robust Sense Of Hope And Either Work Productivity Or Academic Achievement.