Sara Ryan says something important: "I think often, when we try to assess our own progress — whether it’s on working out, writing, or anything else in our lives — we forget to include the weight of the bar, the bar being defined as everything else that affects our capacity to accomplish our goals."
The Atlantic on the science of Planet of the Apes–could James Franco provoke our simian cousins so much they rise? Well, or actually not that at all, but an interesting discussion of research and genetics and ethics.