Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine – the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
There comes a point in nearly every book event I’ve done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations – not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves – indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming. Hanna Rosin Read Quote
