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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE TEENAGE MIND? Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: A lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence.

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[Adapted from Alison Gopnik's essay] for www.edge.org, in response to the website's 2012 annual question: "What is your favorite deep, elegant or beautiful explanation?"

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE TEENAGE MIND? Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: A lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence. [1]

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[Adapted from Alison Gopnik's essay] for www.edge.org [4], in response to the website's 2012 annual question: "What is your favorite deep, elegant or beautiful explanation?"

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