{"author":"Jeffrey Kluger","author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["love","relationship","admire "],"id":146,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"When an organization starts hemorrhaging talent, CEOs and boards of directors want to know why. If the boss gets blamed for the brain drain and is ultimately removed, it means relief for the employees still there and ex post facto vengeance for the former ones.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["career","workplace"],"id":38037,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["day","sales","weakness "],"id":41331,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["language","mind","behavior "],"id":90860,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["life","control","living "],"id":113982,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing. ","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["parents","simple","vaccines "],"id":149453,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["economy","single","bell "],"id":157208,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["die","study","games "],"id":159044,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["suffering","tragedy","gun "],"id":169003,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"},{"text":"Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.","author":"Jeffrey Kluger","tags":["baby","mean","check "],"id":176412,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Kluger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}