Laurel Elis’ 2-year-old son has a short list of foods he’ll eat: buttered noodles, pickles and bananas — but only if the bananas are peeled just so. “Vegetables are a nonstarter, unless I’ve hidden them in chicken noodle soup,” says Elis, a Chicago-based writer. As a former childhood picky eater, Elis took calculated steps in […]
Tag: Nurture
Human Body: The Secrets of Your Life Revealed review: There is no nature versus nurture
The final part of HUMAN BODY: THE SECRETS OF YOUR LIFE REVEALED (BBC2) focused on learning: how it happens, how we remember, how we forget and how impossible it becomes after the age of 45 to master anything more complex than a new dishwasher. It contained much fresh and fascinating detail along the way. Eerie […]
Plague Inc.: Nurture your own pandemic for fun and victory points
Enlarge (credit: Ndemic) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. I’ve invested more hours in the board game Pandemic than I care to admit. First released in 2007, it casts players as a team of medics cooperating to […]
