Hook up your smart plug to a slow cooker and you can have your evening meal cooking timed perfectly for when you walk through the door after work. Whether you need to start or stop the simmering at a particular time while you’re out at the day job, a smart plug means you don’t need to organize cooking schedules around…

He seems to have missed that the US military has released, multiple times now, videos of UFOs and the public was interested for about 12 hours.

I mean, it’s going to be an exciting day for some of us -- although my money is still on Europa and Enceladus -- but I don’t think the general public is going to give much of a…

Many people clearly thought she was mentally disturbed, but LaRouche PAC, a fringe organization that believes climate change is a hoax, was behind the stunt, according to the group’s Twitter account.

Do you buy them stuff outside of their birthdays and major gift-giving holiday of your choice? We stopped doing so once we handed out allowance, which ended up being a great decision, in my opinion. The kids learned a lot and the house is a lot less full of stuff that people don’t really want all that much.

Middle schooler gets $20/month. Elementary schooler gets $10/month. Neither is doing chores to earn that money -- they do chores as asked regardless. The purpose of them getting the money is to learn how to handle money. (The middle schooler stresses out about how bad his sibling is with money, until we remind them…

“Wonderkrater” is a fantastic name. It feels like it belongs in a South African kaiju movie or something.

My kid wants to listen to nothing but videogame music. And there’s some really good videogame music! But holy crap, please listen to something with words in it! Maybe even an electric guitar!

• That they will just have their own ideas when they grow up and not be as like you as you thought. Or they will seem to inherit your worst traits and that will drive you crazy because it’s annoying but you know where they got it. (u/TinyT74)

My guess is it’s the start (perhaps optimistically) of making the MedEvil world a thing, complete with a Netflix series (the Skylanders series ran way longer than I would have ever expected), toy lines, etc.

It’s got the charm. But they might have wanted to launch a reboot before a remastered game.

Bloomberg runs very lean. I’m sure there’s been multiple concerns raised on this issue by field reporters that their editors blew off.

What houses and neighborhoods aren’t suitable for children? Are they built over a native burial ground or something?

Not all of those are insulated, so be careful. It’s a great way to hurt your hand (I have a scar on mine that I’ve had since I was 11 from reaching under an active toaster oven) or to break your non-oven-safe plate.

I am not about to suggest you make cacio e pepe with shaker parm

Did this series start out as a miniseries, or did they just decide it was once the giant gap appeared between the final two issues? I don’t recall it being solicited as anything other than as an ongoing. It’s a great book, but I really wish it was a regular monthly. The wait for the next run in the spring is going to…

I’m not sure they’re things I care that much about.

It’s weird to not have sleep tracking in the Apple Watch. And I haven’t heard anything compelling to make the case for it, other than better integration with iOS products (of which I have a bunch).

“But, officer, I signed a meaningless piece of paper! You have no power over me!”

And there’s plenty of people shooting video of the airplane tests. If you want to know what’s going on in Area 51, it’s already on YouTube (and mostly looks like airplanes flying around, which the layperson will find looks like pretty much any other airplane).

Netherlands does own Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles ...

My now middle schooler has asked questions about all this stuff for years. The good news is that he only wants limited answers at each age range, with the questions and answers getting more detailed as the years go on. But it’s been surprisingly easy to give him what he’s looking for, rather than starting off by…

My now middle schooler has asked questions about all this stuff for years. The good news is that he only wants limited answers at each age range, with the questions and answers getting more detailed as the years go on. But it’s been surprisingly easy to give him what he’s looking for, rather than starting off by…