If you are a twenty-year-old male of unvarnished social aptitude, those movies will seem like much-loved classics that have eaten up half your lifetime.

NEWYORKER: Tangled Webs

Hed spent half a lifetime in the bruising business of book publishing -- much of it at the top of the heap.

FORBES: Voyage of discovery

The bottom line is that half of the entire cost now attributed to the F-35 program for lifetime operations and sustainment is the result of changes made by the government since its inception in how estimates should be calculated and what the scope of the program should be.

FORBES: Super-Weapon: Why Have F-35 Fighter Costs Increased?

Globally the average fertility rate (the number of children a woman can expect during her lifetime) has roughly halved in the past half century, from five in the mid-1950s to 2.5.

ECONOMIST: The digressions of people power