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There Are A Lot Of Obstacles In The Way Of Our Understanding Animal Intelligence - Not The Least Being That We Can't Even Agree Whether Nonhuman Species Are Conscious. We Accept That Chimps And Dolphins Experience Awareness; We Like To Think Dogs And Cats Do. But What About Mice And Newts? What About A Fly? Is Anything Going On There At All?

Older Fatherhood Isn't All Bad: Testosterone Rates Drop About 1% Per Year As Men Age, Making Them Less Reactive And More Patient, And A Professionally Established Middle-aged Man Is Likely To Have More Time And Money To Devote To His Kids Than A Twenty-something Who's Just Getting Started.

Humans Have A Fraught Relationship With Beasts. They Are Our Companions And Our Chattel, Our Family Members And Our Laborers, Our Household Pets And Our Household Pests. We Love Them And Cage Them, Admire Them And Abuse Them. And, Of Course, We Cook And Eat Them.

What People Fear Most About Tragedy Is Its Randomness - A Taxi Cab Jumps The Curb And Hits A Pedestrian, A Gun Misfires And Kills A Bystander. Better To Have Some Rational Cause And Effect Between Incident And Injury. And If Cause And Effect Aren't Possible, Better That There At Least Be Some Reward For All The Suffering.

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.