Maybe when a woman shows up in a courtroom wearing a niqab, the correct response isn't to dismiss her case — it's to require that everyone wear a veil - Malcolm Gladwell

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were — that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made — on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.