These primates developed an accumulation of mercury in their brains which activated certain brain cells and caused neuroinflammation.

Whether or not this achievement is undermined by her representation of vaccinations is up to interpretation of the individual reader.It’s both a tender look at the depths of a mother’s love and a searing examination of how we treat those who are different, and whether we expect them to play by the same rules. There are footprints that match the victim’s one remaining sneaker, and another set that apparently were made by the jogger (whose alibi already eliminated him as a suspect) – but the perp either brushed his own footprints away or flew in for the kill.

Told from the eyes of different characters, the story revolves around Jacob, a teenage boy who has Asperger’s (a form of autism). I stick a magnetic light on top of my car and drive twenty miles over the speed limit before realizing that the dead guy won’t be getting any deader if I’m five minutes late, and that there’s black ice all over the roads.I can see pretty much everything from in there – the dining room table, where the kids do their homework. As a teacher with 33 years experience, I am impressed by how well the author really captured the essence of this teenager with Asperger’s. He's always quoting song lyrics and lines from movies because it helps to calm him or gives him something to say when he doesn't know an appropriate response.

The crap Jacob has to take at breakfast – a whole extra meal of pills and shots and supplements – costs a fortune, and I know that my mother stays up nights sometimes doing freelance editing jobs just so that she can pay Jess, Jacob’s social skills tutor.House Rules was no exception,and I found myself thinking about the Hunt family long after I shut the book. She recognizes Jacob by sight, now, and usually gives him two mini eggrolls or bruschetta rounds or whatever else she’s plying that week. I felt that Picoult did her homework, and that she presented the traits, and possible causality, fairly and honestly.