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Grandin isn't much of a writer (nor, on the evidence, is her co-author, Catherine Johnson), but she's at least as astute an observer as Holmes, plus she's an actual scientist and an influential designer of humane cattle-handling systems. Grandin is also famous for being one of the world's most professionally eminent autistic people, which gives her work an ineffably distinctive perspective. In Animals Make Us Human, she's particularly interested in a kind of behavior called a stereotypy: an abnormal action that someone can't stop repeating. Autistic people often have stereotypies...
...retriever weepie Marley & Me--have all taken in more kibble than any other dog movie in four years. On Jan. 16, the canine canon expands again with Hotel for Dogs, in which two kids find a way to house, feed and, crucially, toilet train more than a dozen strays. Plus, the kids are orphans. If by the end of the film you don't want to adopt something, check your pulse...
...content of puppy movies rarely gives parents paws. (Sorry. Another plus of dog flicks: the puns.) Marley dies but at the end of a long, mischievous life. The Chihuahua flirts, but the only doggy style in the movie is her couture. There are few worthier--or safer--recipients of a child's affection. "Dogs are not attached to any gender," says Alan Beck, a professor of human-animal studies at Purdue University. "They have no age, no race, no background. You don't have to justify anyone's love for them." With a few Cujo-like exceptions, dog movies...
...That, plus it's not nearly so adorable when we chew the furniture...
...Bread pudding: 1 loaf of your favorite bread (we use a Pullman loaf) 3 cups heavy cream 140 g (½ cup plus 2 tbsp.) granulated sugar 38 g (1 1/3 oz.) 61% chocolate 38 g (1 1/3 oz.) 72% chocolate 100 g (3½ oz.) egg yolks Pinch of salt...