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Confidence Quickly Curdles Into Arrogance; Smarts Turn To Smugness, Charm Turns To Smarm.

When Our Culture Shifts, It Tends To Overcorrect, Throwing Out Everything Associated With An Era We've Moved Past, Rather Than Saving What Was Good And Combining It With What Is New.

Every Batch Of Sperm Represents An Opportunity For Genetic Typos - Called De Novo Mutations - To Be Passed On. A 20-year-old Man And Woman Will Each Pass On About 20 De Novo Mutations To A Baby They Conceive. By The Time The Couple Is 40, A Woman's Total Has Remained At 20, While A Man's Has Jumped To 65 - And It Keeps Climbing From There.

Psychopaths Know The Technical Difference Between Right And Wrong - Which Is One Of The Reasons Their Insanity Pleas In Criminal Cases So Rarely Succeed; They Just Fail To Act On That Knowledge.

Credit Or Debit Cards, For Starters, Are Nothing Short Of Shoppers' Novocain. Even In The Age Of Digital Purchases And Virtual Money, We Still Attach A Special Value To Dirty Paper With Pictures Of Presidents On It. Handing Some Of That To A Cashier Simply Hurts More Than Handing Over A Little Sliver Of Plastic.