Author: Jeffrey Kluger

Health

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 what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is becoming clear.

Jeffrey Kluger

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 what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is becoming clear.

Health

There's no one place a virus goes to die – but that doesn't 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

There's no one place a virus goes to die – but that doesn't 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.

Future

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Jeffrey Kluger

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Fear

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness – a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

Jeffrey Kluger

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness – a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

Family

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats.

Jeffrey Kluger

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats.

Family

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

Jeffrey Kluger

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

Family

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel our family members and our laborers our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them admire them and abuse them. And of course we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel our family members and our laborers our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them admire them and abuse them. And of course we cook and eat them.

Family

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it – the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Jeffrey Kluger

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it – the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Family

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later blended home – and then watched that home explode too.

Jeffrey Kluger

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later blended home – and then watched that home explode too.

Family

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and here's betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent so do you.

Jeffrey Kluger

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and here's betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent so do you.

Faith

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.

Jeffrey Kluger

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.