As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of whats known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear. – Jeffrey Kluger
My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs. – Jeffrey Kluger
Theres no one place a virus goes to die – but that doesnt make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out. – Jeffrey Kluger
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If youve got an adolescent boy, youre in the sweet spot for trouble. – Jeffrey Kluger
A great many sick persons are allowed to drift into a critical condition when ill—from which many never rally, because they are not fed—not furnished with such nutritive material as their enfeebled powers can digest. – King Chambers, quoted by John Milner Fothergill in A Manual of Dietetics, 1886
Im an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me thats not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. Thats all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them. – Dax Shepard