Jeffrey Kluger: The Hidden Power of Siblings

February 29, 2012 by Gail
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Jeffrey Kluger makes the case that it is those brothers and sisters — our place among them, our rivalry with them — who make us who we are. Older siblings we are told, are those most likely to succeed, but younger brothers and sisters have a measurably quicker grasp of other minds, a writerly ability to intuit the thoughts and desires of others. Truth or fiction?

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ABOUT Jeffrey Kluger

“Jeffrey Kluger is Senior Editor of TIME Magazine’s Science and Technology reporting. He has written or co-written more than 35 cover stories for TIME and regularly contributes articles and commentary on science and health stories.

Jeffrey is also co-author, with astronaut Jim Lovell, of ‘Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13’ that was the basis of the Apollo 13 movie released in 1995. His other books include ‘Splendid Solution’ which tells the story of Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine.

He authored ‘Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and Why Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)’, the young adult novel ‘Freedom Stone’, and the newly released ‘The Sibling Effect’.

Before joining TIME, Jeffrey was a staff writer for Discover Magazine, where he wrote the ‘Light Elements’ humour column, and was also an Editor for the New York Times Business World Magazine, Family Circle and Science Digest. He is an attorney and has taught Science Journalism at New York University.”

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