(Fowl Language Comics/Brian Gordon)Hey, kids! A magical creature has left you treats. Start eating because that's what we do on this special day of the year.Then, in several months, a strange man will sneak into our hous...

(Pie Comic/John McNamee)The horror fiction writer Eric Carle created a tale that will terrify generations of adults and children--if it's told the right way. Altering traditional literature for optimal character developm...

(Chris Hallbeck/Maximumble)Would you travel back in time to kill Hitler as a baby? It's a classic ethical dilemma. A better question is: could you kill Hitler as a baby? Granted, he's not a super-soldier. But I'm pretty...

The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scien...  ...s at 3 minutes to midnight. Randall Munroe of the webcomic xkcd provides yet another argument against Daylig...

(xkcd/Randall Munroe)This isn't the a map of the states redrawn to have equal populations or area. Rather, Randall Munroe simply re-arranged the current states so that, even when placed in different locations, they still...

(Candy Rocket/Jason Aloisi)Giving your child a pet is a great way to teach him responsibility. The child must become disciplined enough to study how to care for the animal and to consistently provide that care.Not every...

(They Can Talk/Jimmy Craig)Cats are naturally tidy. They know that if they need to cough up something, such as a hairball or a dead bird, then they need to dispose of it properly in your sneakers. Dogs, in contrast, will...

(Lunarbaboon)If you coddle your children, all you do is set them up for failure. You've got to teach them your values by example. If your son doesn't learn how to shirk responsibilities from you, how do you expect him to...

Randal Munro of the webcomic xkcd illustrates how much we Americans consume of...

(Pie Comic/John McNamee)Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a version of you that did not eat that entire box of cookies. But there's only one because that's a surprisingly uncommon choice for you to make. It's almost...