Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Klugeris a senior writer at Time Magazine and author of nine books on various topics, such as The Narcissist Next Door; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio; The Sibling Effect; and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. The latter work was the basis for Ron Howard's film Apollo 13. He is also the author of two books for young adults: Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boatsand Freedom Stone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
simple vaccines parent
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
giving feelings looks
The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
brain downtime
There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
mean dna swag
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.
kings meals three
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.
simple facts murder
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
real pride worry
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.
kids anarchy
Kids are anarchy writ large.
giving doe energy
Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.
girl brother boys
Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.
photography moments lifetime
Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.
divorce home my-family
My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.
player nfl brain
More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
skulls brain tissues
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.