Experiences better than possessions? Yes, but shared experiences are best
Good times with people you love are more important than bungee-jumping off the moon with Tom Cruise.
We’ll be eating two credits cards' worth of plastic a year by 2050
What is the breaking point for the ecosystem or human life for consuming microplastics?
Did ChatGPT say it can 'hack systems' and it wants to 'kill people' Yes, but wait!
There’s been a lot of fuss over strangely threatening conversations newly launched cutting-edge chatbots are having.
Maybe we need to rethink those computer science career paths
Artificial intelligence-enhanced chatbots ChatGPT and Bard are creating enough waves to make the human job market look rather murky.
A new year, a new you ... maybe?
It’s just an arbitrary endpoint – but still, the ends and beginnings of a year can kick you off the couch and into productive activity.
Catchy Christmas song ‘Jingle Bells’ began life as a pick-up song
Everyone knows the Christmas song 'Jingle Bells', right? Even those who don’t celebrate the festival probably know that catchy chorus. Its origins, though, wow, that’s a different story.
Travelling with a toddler can be ... trying
‘We got to the airport as planned, and then it all went sideways’. Hands up all parents of toddlers who can relate to this!
China's kids can only play three hours of video games a week
China's kids can only play three hours of video games a week
Whatever happened to nice, geeky Elon Musk?
The preening, attention-seeking Elon Musk that owns Twitter is a very different Musk than the one who got him there.
Would you give up airconditioning and driving right now to save the planet?
Oil and gas are killing this planet. Problem is, we can’t do without them just yet – unless we’re willing to give up airconditioning and fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
At least we don't have to worry about asteroids wiping us out – not yet, anyway
The frequency with which Earth gets hit by large asteroids spans hundred of thousands if not millions of years, so at least we don’t have to worry about that. For now. And Nasa’s working on it, even.
Holiday from hell in Romania: Cashless and living in four-day-old clothes
You know you're getting old when you’re practically living on the streets of a small town in Europe and it’s not a big, fun adventure.

