J. Michael Andresen

FIFA World Cup One of the two pre-tournament favorites, Spain needed two overtime periods to finally score the only goal of the game and beat the Netherlands. In one of the more bizarre human- (or mollusk-) interest stories surrounding the tournament, Paul the Octopus (pictured above) correctly picked eight World Cup games , including the final. The answer to Question 6 of the 2010 Prognostication Quiz is therefore B. Spain . Siete personas chose Espana to prevail: Rachel H. Russell Larry Adrian Matthew Grant Ellen That's an especially sweet point for Matthew, who won last year's quiz but has been shut out of this year's scoring until now. Death We've also had a spate of recent deaths. Lena Horne, Martin Gardner, and Robert Byrd have all gone on to meet their maker. (Isn't there a saying about such things coming in threes?) This means that F , N , and P are added to correct answers to Questions 13-15. Janette, Marcus, and Jan picked Mr. Gardner. Mary C. and Peter...

Max's aunt Tina took a video of him while she was babysitting one day. In one two-minute video she captured a lot of his most recent developmental advances, including following verbal requests. Tina asks Max to cuddle his baby and he is only too happy to oblige. For those Max fanatics out there, I give you three additional videos taken on Max's first long-distance vacation! I had a two-day conference in Boston, so we made it a long weekend and took Max with us. He was quite good on the plane, despite our great fears: he loved looking around and only got fussy when he got tired and we were able to get him to take a nap when that happened. My favorite part was how smitten Max was with our hosts' three-year-old daughter. He kept following her around wherever she went so that he could sneak up and give her hugs when she wasn't looking. She loved the attention at first, but she was quite ready for us to finally leave. Poor Max. Unrequited love at such a young age! Here's...