As Andy Williams once sang — and as the annual holiday commercial barrage won’t let you forget — the holiday season is the “most wonderful time of the year!” Children and adults alike get a reprieve from their usual routine, enjoying time off to frolic outside and...

What is flow? Think of it as a heightened mental state; or for those athletes out there, flow is akin to a purely mental form of a runner’s high where moving forward in a task becomes meditative and progress nearly effortless. In 1975, renowned psychologist Mihaly...

Nearly everyone engages in unhealthy lifestyle habits on occasion — bag of potato chips instead of dinner? Two-too-many glasses of Pinot Noir? We’ve all been there and life is all about balance, right? While “everything in moderation,” goes the old line, does that...

What do you do when you’re born completely color blind, but are desperate to enjoy a full range of color vision? If you’re Neil Harbissoh, you implant an antenna into your head. The device translates colors to sounds that he hears via bone conduction. It not only...

Fresh off the excitement of the holiday season, from a child’s perspective, the answer to the question ‘What’s your New Year’s resolution?’ might not be as clear-cut as it is for their parents.   Identifying an area for improvement can be puzzling for kids....

It’s 4:00 p.m. and you’re slogging through the remainder of the workday, re-reading the latest email from your boss to make sure you’re not missing anything vital. Your morning coffee buzz has completely waned and instead of focusing on work, you’re thinking about the...

Unless you’ve been living in an Internet cave—or perhaps a cave without Internet—you know that this past week was the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). What started out in 1967 in New York, featuring that year’s big-ticket items of pocket radios and integrated-circuit...

Most of your child’s virtual learning issues have been ironed out. You’ve figured out what school supplies will help streamline virtual learning beyond three-ring binders and gel pens. And for better or for worse, your kitchen table has become the default household...

Digital innovation has shaped almost every aspect of the way we live our lives today. Struggling to find parking downtown? Want to start learning a new language today? Craving sushi from the town over but don’t want to get off the sofa? There’s an app for that. And...