Gaming as grown-ups

Can using brain training apps really keep your grey matter in good shape or is it just wishful thinking? We put the best to the test

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I’ll never forget the day my wife and I drove to pick up our miniature schnauzer puppy. She was just four weeks old and could sit in my palm. On the way home, I sat with her on the back seat as she co

Counting the instances of the letter “r” in “strawberry”. Generating an image to show kicking the bucket, monkey business or another idiom – or no elephants in a room. These are all examples of viral

Planning a game night? Let’s make sure everyone is on the same page with their expectations of “what is fun” and how to get on with each other! Attending a game night? Not sure what the “social contra

As a child, the zoo felt like a magical world – lionesses lounging under dull British skies, laminated tanks of rare reptiles and flurries of exotic birds I had only ever seen in books. I was raised o