Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Daring life, optimistic living.

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.