Games reward creativity: titles like Zelda, Hitman, and MGSV let players solve problems in countless ways. Nonlinear play grows thinking: puzzles and open missions encourage outside-the-box solutions.

Two ideas I heard from TPM Readers today: The first is from TPM Reader BT, who recommends that big cities hold military occupation referendums. Needless to say these would not constrain President ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- I thought life was already hectic with a full-time career and three kids but I had no idea it was about to get crazier when the novel coronavirus pandemic hit. We are all being ...

Let me first introduce myself and this blog, which is titled Total Brain Workout. I am a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, and one of my main areas of cultural research is ...