People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.

The author Laura van den Berg on what inspired her newest novel, "The Third Hotel," and how she accesses the part of the mind that fiction comes from.

Most of the edible plants in the rainforest were planted by humans over 4500 years ago, new study finds. Modern farmers should look to these ancient forest gardeners for the key to sustainable food production.

We influence each other in many ways besides pure reason. What’s the moral difference between persuasion and manipulation?

Finding your everyday reason for living, or ikigai, could lead to a longer and better life.

Is that service still running? What application is using that TCP port? These questions and more can be answered easily by sysadmins who know simple Linux commands. @Enterprisenxt

It’s not just about rebellion. Neuroscience is revealing adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour.

"You always want what you can't have" is a phrase most often repeated by people trying to make a point that you should be satisfied with what you already have, rather than trying to attain more for fulfillment. After all, if you're just looking to the next big thing, you'll miss what's right in front of your eyes ... or so every romantic comedy ever has taught us.

Sure, you praise your kids. And they look at you with beaming little faces. Such a warm feeling, if only for a moment. But, is that all there is to praise? What’s simmering in the brain behind those sparkling eyes? It may well depend on the precise nature of the praise you gave. There are at least two main ways that you can praise a child. First, you can praise them as a person. You can say, “you are very smart” or “you are good at math.”

Avoiding gluten may actually be doing more harm than good.

The world’s second-most-valuable cryptocurrency is also its most interesting—but in order to understand it, you must first understand its origins.

“Stand next to the gate agent, even if they ask you to sit down,” she writes. “Be polite but firm. … Ultimately, they just want you to go away and not be their problem anymore.”

They conducted illegal actions against U.S. citizens for two decades and got away with it. By Richard Stockton.

NES Classic is no more, but luckily cheap hobbyist boards are great for little projects.

It is increasingly difficult to find high-quality clothes that will last and look good for years, but it's worth putting in the effort. By Katherine Martinko.

A decade ago, Magnus Carlsen, who at the time was only 13 years old, created a sensation in the chess world when he defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov at a chess tournament in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the next day played then-top-rated Garry Kasparov —who is widely regarded as the best chess player of all time — to a draw.

What jet lag, insomnia and mental illness have in common.

In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Why won’t other countries follow suit?

John Berger

In a remote corner of Colorado, a radical experiment is underway to rehabilitate the state’s most downtrodden residents. By Will McGrath.

We’ve already taken a look at what novels are hitting bookshelves this month, but 2017 promises to be a huge year for science fiction and fantasy literature as a whole. There’s going to be some...

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Find legal graffiti spots, walls and hall of fames around the world.

Parents must put down the electronic tablets and start reading to their children if they want them to be successful in the world of tech and science. Reading books to children has a far more profound effect on learning than letting them play with electronic tablets, according to Dr Shane Bergin, physicist, lecturer and researcher in science education at University College Dublin (UCD).

A librarian in Kansas City, Missouri, was recently arrested simply for standing up for a library patron’s free speech rights at a public event featuring a former US diplomat. Both the librarian and the patron face criminal charges. One hopes that the case—only the most recent of many attacks on our libraries' defense of free speech and privacy—will be resolved without further cost, trouble and damage. By Francine Prose.

Photographer Robert Ormerod took a road trip from Roswell to Area 51, immersing himself in the mythology behind extra-terrestrial life.

Dolphins should be treated as non-human "persons" and their rights to life and liberty respected, the world's biggest science meeting is told.

As Ian McEwan wrote: "The rules of time travel have been written not by scientists but by storytellers." Here are some of the best time travel books around.

An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.