“The best reappraisals are born in the worst crisis. It has happened to all of us in relative degrees. Be glad for it and don’t be afraid of being afraid.” –from Marlon Brando to ex-lover Marilyn Monroe in a telegram on February 1961, after she had been hospitalized for nervous collapse and breakdown.

Yesterday Salon posted Steve Paulson’s wonderfully readable interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson, founder of sociobiology and author of “On Human Nature.” Wilson may not say what you want to hear about God’s existence–he’s not so sure he buys it–but he is open to the possibility that a larger, cosmic force started…

One CM reader sides with Mr. Chattering in believing that morning people are born, not made. In fact, Rebecca T. (who ruminates on all kinds of smart things here) says true night people have trouble adjusting in a world that equates productivity and well-being with bouncing out of bed before 7 a.m.: Actually, many people…

Are you a morning person? I pretty much am, which is to say I wake up hungry, filled with curiosity about the weather, eager to roll up the blinds. Mr. Chattering and I have a running disagreement over whether people who are not morning people are born that way and forever stuck needing coffee OR…

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