When you are in the process of divorcing, you think you have screwed everything up and that you are not good for anything.

WSJ: Sometimes, a Second Career Requires a Leap of Faith

And so on, for everything you can think of that might mess up your measurement of the effect of one thing on well-being, rather than another.

BBC: Why it's hard to measure happiness

You know, I want to do everything I possibly can for my own child, but I think, you know, that there's this loss of the value of learning those lessons from failure, and I think it's just getting worse, and it definitely worries me.

NPR: Ask Amy: Responding to the Thin Envelope

We don't necessarily think you will be in the market for any or all of these things, but we hope you find the analysis on everything from face-lifts to vintage cars compelling.

WSJ: Editor's Letter

"Having worked in the fitness industry for a number of years you'd think that we would have everything health and fitness-related sorted when it comes to ourselves, " she said.

BBC: Bristol

And so sometimes I think that people need to realize that, you know, there is a time for everything.

CNN: Spann's father: Pride, sorrow, anger

As Steven Johnson explained in Everything Bad Is Good For You, video games teach you how to telescope -- to think about the distant ramifications of the decisions you make in split seconds.

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