2016 – DFC International

Harder, Not Smarter?: Considering the June Oven

From counter-top tortilla makers to fridges you can tweet from, so-called “smart” appliances seem to be getting smarter. But over […]

Despite some experts’ developing theories on the impossibility of our ever creating “strong A.I.” — that is, the kind of robot

On Friday, I was happily taking care of the dishes while half listening to a local radio station playing in

The Verge has published a moving meditation on a close friendship torn apart by death – and how the friend

It took me a good couple days to believe this in-development appliance was real, and not from The Onion – but

As the days grow shorter and the wind blows colder, thoughts turn to how the heck to keep from freezing

A team out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has done a serious assessment of studies of brain training

Schadenfreude, an originally German term, is used to describe a very human emotion — translated by a certain hit Broadway

Sometimes, the foods that make you sickest are the ones that passed the – literal and figurative – sniff test.

Earlier this week, we (meaning the dogs & humans living here) had some excitement in the backyard. The excitement started