Orange Crush

Review

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  How Many Friends Can Your Brain Hold?

  The "social brain hypothesis" and the relationship of one's social network to the size of a lobe in the brain.

• The Dismal Science Meets Modern Matrimony

  How married people really feel about love, money, sex and their spouses: A survey from the new book "Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage and Dirty Dishes."

  • Graphic: 'Spousonomics'
  • Video: Solving Everyday Marital Conflicts
  • Poll: Is your marriage more or less work than you thought?

• A-Hed

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  Feathers Fly in L.A. as Goose Faces Eviction

  Los Angeles engineers planning to clean up a 143-year-old lake are ruffling the feathers of a celebrity couple. It would be a typical L.A. story—with paparazzi, gawking fans and a music video cameo—except for the fact that one half of the couple is a goose.

  • Photos: Man's Best Friend -- A Goose

• Food & Drink

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  Nathan Myhrvold's Kitchen Revolution

  A groundbreaking new cookbook upends pretty much everything you thought you knew about cooking.

  • My 30-Course Dinner at Nathan's
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  Roasted Kabocha Squash

  The first of four easy-enough recipes by Annisa chef Anita Lo.

• Sports

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  The New Testament of Golf

  Bump the ball, toss it out of the bunker. it's "Flogton," and its backers say it could save the game.

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  Jerry Sloan's Jazz: Consistently Excellent

  The Count: Utah never won a title under Sloan, but its consistency and success made it one of the best teams in the league during his tenure.

• Tech

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  Hot Wheels

  Heirloom-quality toy cars that you'll cherish more than the real thing.

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  The Classic Clock Radio

  The portable Grundig Mini 400 is the traveler's essential bedside companion.

• Arts & Entertainment

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  God at the Grammys: The Chosen Ones

  Neil Strauss on why so many musical superstars think that their careers are part of a divine plan.

  • Video: God Guiding Lady Gaga to Mega Fame?

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  In London, New Stars and New Bidders

  Artworks by Picasso and Pierre Bonnard were among the biggest winners at the past week's sales of Impressionist and modern art.

• Books

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  The Spymaster's Spymaster

  Franklin Roosevelt made him his top spy in World War II, and he was the director of the country's first national intelligence agency. "Wild Bill Donovan," is the biography of a fascinating intelligence officer. Andrew Roberts reviews.

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  H-Bombs on a Hair Trigger

  In "15 Minutes," L. Douglas Keeney argues that America's nuclear doctrine grew out of a careful attempt to address real-life problems in a tense and shifting Cold War climate. Arthur Herman reviews.

• New York

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  Spending the Kitty on Pooches

  From spas to private jets, dogs who compete in the Westminster Dog Show live the high life.

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  Twilight of the Sewing Machine Repairman

  As fashion's biggest names convene outside Lincoln Center, Leon Shpelfogel will be hunched over a Singer, a pair of pliers in hand, inside his shop in Brooklyn's Midwood section -- just 12 miles away but a world apart.