According to the critically important writer Richard Louv, we suffer, as a culture, from an awful ailment he dubbed "Nature Deficit Disorder"—the failure, for a lot of reasons, of our culture to establish a contact with the natural world. Well, in my family, there's no such disease, and as proof, I offer you what we did to celebrate my granddaughter Stasia's seventh birthday recently. We did, of course, go for a hike in the still-cold weather, but the frogs, the object of our quest, remained silent. So, when we came inside for the party and the gift-giving, we sought other "natural" signs, one of which was this amazing present that Stasia had asked for and received: a large egg inside of which was computer-driven creature. Now, Louv would probably be aghast that the naturalist and his grandkids, family, and friends spent the next hour or so watching this "Hatchimal" peck out of its shell—really—and come to silicon life, but even I, hardened and cynical though I can often be, found the birth remarkable, even if it wasn't quite natural.