The tech world is completely aghast at the price of the gold Apple Watch Edition, which starts at $10,000 but would cost you even more if you plan on buying it. The pricing is baking everyone’s noodles. It’s so hard for us to understand how can this edition cost so much more than the basic one when the only difference it’s in the design. This is not how tech works.

Don’t assume that young children’s natural language abilities will lead to true grown-up language skills without a good deal of effort.

When your games become your ghosts.

The benefits of reading at every stage of a child’s development are well documented. Happily, raising a reader is fun, rewarding and relatively easy.

DNS is all fine and dandy, but with a good Hosts file you can speed up your internet experience by eliminating time-wasting links.

So there I was, browsing the PHB and marveling at what the late 1970s considered optimal tabletop game design, when I discovered that, uniquely among all the character attributes, the STR (strength) score has a numerical “in real life” quantification attached.

Simple tools and checklists can give us a lot of leverage when running our RPGs and we can use such a checklist as a basic guide for maintaining an interesting pace during our next game. This article contains one such checklist in the form of an adventure skeleton.

Keith Lowe’s The Fear and the Freedom is an intimate portrayal of how human beings carry on when their world has changed for ever. By John Gray.

Australian chemistry teacher James Kennedy wanted to dispel the myth that chemicals are bad for us. He created an ingredient list for natural products, like the banana above, to show that there are many chemicals in our food's natural flavours and colours.

Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list

Results in mice are first evidence of natural intervention triggering stem cell-dependent regeneration of organ or system.

The inventor of the Roomba tells us about his new solar-powered, weed-destroying robot

Here's what happened to a professor of genetic epidemiology's 'microbiome' when he lived with the Hadza.

An exclusive look at the dreams Santiago Ramon y Cajal recorded to prove Freud was wrong.

If there’s anything more hypocritical than the lying warmongers at the New York Times running a full-page list of the lies Trump has told since taking office, it’s the foam-brained establishment Democrats who still read that awful propaganda rag. By Caitlin Johnstone.

Less than 1% of people are living according to the principles/science described herein. However, I’m confident that if you apply these recovery principles to your life, you’ll live a more engaged, meaningful, and productive life.

The long read: Timothy Morton wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs, from the fantasy that we can control the planet to the notion that we are ‘above’ other beings. His ideas might sound weird, but they’re catching on

The tapas was a mistake. Or maybe the wine that washed it down? Suffice to say that come morning, at the business end of a flying trip to Brisbane, I’m a bit embarrassed about my specimen. But I’m on a deadline. Done is better than perfect.

People are really into exploring their views with the perfect use of this internet world. Hence everyone has a keen interest in developing a rock solid social presence through a blog. What’s so special about this era of millennial blogging? Why do people call it a phase of youngsters? The answer lies within you, your audience, and this virtual world of people connecting with each other from different parts of the world. (These millennials were born between 1981-2001).

A young editor withstood a decade of online abuse. Now she’s fighting back — on Wikipedia itself. By Andrew McMillen.

GOLDEN. Warm. Crunchy, yet soft ... many find french fries the ultimate irresistible temptation. But now we know they double your chances of death.

In 1979, psychologist Ellen Langer and her students carefully refurbished an old monastery in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to resemble a place that would have existed two decades earlier.

Acknowledging our unimportance liberates us from the grips of the self-centered voice in our head causing a lot of life’s difficulties.

Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. By William Astore.

The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.

In this post, I'm not whining about foreign policy, economics or politics. This is entirely about my frustrations with day to day life in America. By Benny Lewis.

The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed. By Toni Morrison.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste", is an apocryphal quote attributed to Winston Churchill. Real or not, it does neatly describe Theresa May's reaction to the latest London terrorist attack. Yesterday morning, following the tragedy on London Bridge, Theresa May said "enough is enough", and launched into a campaign speech, further advocating for greater regulation and control of the internet.

More worrying than the internet’s role in the rise of far-right populism is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us: AI and and ‘crypto-anarchists’ are radically restructuring life – and politics – as we know it

The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market last year’. You may have the impression from announcements like that, and from the obligatory pictures of wind turbines in any New York Times story, that wind power is making a big contribution to world energy today.