Dr. Sternberg, a prominent neuroimmunologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, has given herself a gigantic assignment, incorporating architecture, aesthetics, psychology, neurobiology, physiology and aromatherapy, among many other disciplines.

My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.

Every lad in his teens knows what a simpering noodle a woman can be if she wants his attention or courts his admiration, and he generally starts life by answering the noodle according to her noodleism.

He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible.