TEDxAsheville - Jeff Kluger - The hidden power of siblings

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. Kluger is also co-author, with astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis of the Apollo 13 movie released in 1995. His other books include, Splendid Solution, published in 2006, which tells the story of Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine. He is also the author of the 2008 Hyperion release 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, Kluger was a staff writer for Discover magazine, where he wrote the "Light Elements" humor column, and he was also an editor for the New York Times Business World Magazine, Family Circle and Science Digest. Kluger, who is also an attorney, has taught science journalism at New York University.


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[SuperAnimalDrummer]

@ranjith19789 I agree with that. Just a LITTLE bit faster. That would be perfect.

[shaola37]

the sense of humour part was sooo true...i went Woaah woaaaahh....btw im the youngest...and yes the funny one

[ranjith19789]

this guy should talk a little faster

[bigskyjazz]

All so true - birth order has been a topic in family sociology for 20 years. Add in dysfunctional parents and the tangle deepens multi-fold; parents with high Social IQ boost outcomes exponentially.

[qwoeiu]

I'm the eldest son out of four siblings. luckily, what he had said in this video is mostly true for my family as well. win for 3 point advantage on IQ and a greater win for having many siblings.

i love my family

[Misstressofdons]

loved it

[malipetek]

the speech and the topic are very nice tkanks

[detriplea]

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