Pocket Books is releasing two companion collections of essays by the bestselling Benjamin Spock, the author of Baby and Child Care, one of the most widely read parenting books ever written. Both are ...

When Gene Roddenberry was putting Star Trek together, NBC execs had some advice: "Lose the Martian." We all know how that turned out: Mr. Spock (a... Mr. Spock: The 'Mystery of Masculinity' Embodied ...

Babies are on our mind these days, and often for all the wrong reasons. It makes you wonder what America’s famous pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Spock, who died 25 years ago Wednesday, would say to us now ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, any household in which kids were being reared likely held a well-worn paperback copy of Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Baby and Child Care.” Spock’s book, published in 1946 at the dawn ...

Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is, without a doubt, one of the most legendary characters in TV History. The half-Vulcan, half-human played an extremely integral part in the original Star Trek series, and ...

Leonard Nimoy was proud to be Spock, but there were two instances when Star Trek asked him to don Vulcan ears and Nimoy had good reasons to say no.