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Special Guest Malcolm Gladwell

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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Parenting Advice for Youth Sports

You can't tell a single thing about someone's appetite for mathematics at six, because the mathematics you're doing at six has no relationship to the mathematics you would do if you were going to be a mathematician. So let her learn and stop trying to push the child in one direction or another. I have come to the position that there were relentless pursuit of excellence in trivial activities is pointless. The one thing I dearly hope of my daughter is that she does not want to become a champion swimmer. That just means she's going to spend six hours in the pool throughout her entire adolescence and early adulthood. You've got to be nuts to what your child to be a figure skater. All

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