Slow-cooked foods are making a comeback, and for good reason: a minor investment (some models will only set you back 20 bucks), minimal prep, and an afternoon of unattended simmering is all it takes to pull together a delicious meal.

Some days are just more difficult than others, turning dinner into a bothersome chore. Save the drama and put your slow cooker to good use with this comfort-food recipe that hits the spot — and makes enough for lunch tomorrow.

These mini deep dish pizzas are surprisingly easy to make and taste delicious. The secret is crescent roll dough which you can use to make a lot more than crescent rolls. The wonderful thing about these little pizzas is that they are the perfect size for kids or for an adult who is watching their portions.

The goal of this article is to promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science by curbing terminological misinformation and confusion. To this end, we present a provisional list of 50 commonly used terms in psychology, psychiatry, and allied fields that should be avoided, or at most used sparingly and with explicit caveats.

Almost 100 years ago, an English aristocrat found the secrets of dream control. Her adventures explored the limits of consciousness – which modern science has only now rediscovered. By David Robson.

This Nutella and Bacon Stuffed French Toast will change your life. Seriously. It's that good.

Get this all-star, easy-to-follow Twice-Baked Potatoes recipe

A new book offers mathematical puzzles, such as fitting a coin through a hole that seems too small to accommodate it. Colm Mulcahy reviews "Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More," by Matt Parker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Add a little spice to your breakfast routine, salads, or bacon sandwiches with Jerk Bacon. Its as easy as 1-2-3!

Your smartphone was designed to deliver as much value as possible to its manufacturer, carrier and OS vendor, leaving behind the smallest amount of value possible while still making it a product that you'd be willing to pay for and use. But in south China, the absence of patent and copyright enforcement, combined with enormous manufacturing and design capacity, means that phones for the domestic market are wildly innovative -- more than just endless variations on glass-distraction-rectangles.

By the time he died in 1992, Asimov’s published books numbered 500, with the best known being The Foundation Trilogy and the I, Robot series of novels. He was a Ph.D. professor of biochemistry at Boston University before he retired to write fulltime.

A Canadian scholar was unimpressed with the cookbooks available for people on food stamps in the U.S. So she decided to come up with her own set of tips and recipes for eating well on $4 a day.

Consciousness is the greatest, most troubling mystery in science. Don’t believe the hype: the Hard Problem is here to stay

This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying “very few [long] novels earn their length.” Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major literary award these days, and many genre novels have ballooned to absurd sizes.

This is a great resource that someone sent to me called "Getting BS in CS Without Getting BS in CS." Hope someone finds it useful.

You've probably heard of Blender, but do you know about Natron? Our how-to will help you get started using this open source compositing tool.

This is very important -- somehow, cinnamon rolls just got better. Click through for the full recipe.

The Neuroscience of Reading Great Literature

My first real act as a god was getting killed. By a wolf. Just outside my own sorta-temple. If any of my followers are listening, write that down in your scrolls and I’ll drop the moon on you.

The Windows 95 Classic Rodents Revenge can be downloaded as a .JAR file! I tested this out, no viruses, no bullshit, just a badass game from Windows 95! Enjoy! :D

Gameplay trailer of the hero Soldier: 76 in Overwatch.

Microsoft releases e-books to support IT professionals with the coming features of Windows 10. A great resource that I highly recommend you flip through, even if you're only helping out grandma.

16 (and more) free data science books for the aspirational data scientist, covering statistics, Python, machine learning, the data science process, and more.

Taking a very basic understanding of vectors and writing JavaScript that kind of replicates those vectors but in no way represents a real physics environment. The beauty of hack physics is that you don't even really need to understand the physics theory behind it. You just need to understand how to use it to animate stuff.

An unfortunate teaser for the new series available on Netflix (UPDATE: As made by a fan)