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The Everything Guide to Planning a Cruise

Whether you like it or not, cruises touch on a tantalizing vacation trifecta: good value, hassle-free planning, and the promise of adventure. Pay an upfront rate and you’ve got a floating hotel, three meals a day, ample entertainment and activities, luxe services, and an expert itinerary in multiple destinations. Now add to that the fact that you only have to unpack your bags once. We know the reputation that cruises

The Everything Guide to Planning a Cruise

Whether you like it or not, cruises touch on a tantalizing vacation trifecta: good value, hassle-free planning, and the promise of adventure. Pay an upfront rate and you’ve got a floating hotel, three meals a day, ample entertainment and activities, luxe services, and an expert itinerary in multiple destinations. Now add to that the fact that you only have to unpack your bags once. We know the reputation that cruises

20 Awe-Inspiring Ruins From the World's Greatest Civilizations

All over the globe, from Italy to Zimbabwe, civilizations have left behind impressive monuments and structures that attest to their former glory. Appearing in literature, songs, and films, these mystical sculptures, sacred religious sites, royal palaces, fortifications, ancient centers of commerce, ports, and tombs are all we have left of some of history’s most illustrious societies. While some sites were lost for centuries, engulfed by overgrown jungles, others never fell out of use. Either

20 Awe-Inspiring Ruins From the World's Greatest Civilizations

All over the globe, from Italy to Zimbabwe, civilizations have left behind impressive monuments and structures that attest to their former glory. Appearing in literature, songs, and films, these mystical sculptures, sacred religious sites, royal palaces, fortifications, ancient centers of commerce, ports, and tombs are all we have left of some of history’s most illustrious societies. While some sites were lost for centuries, engulfed by overgrown jungles, others never fell out of use. Either

Your brain's GPS may help you navigate down memory lane

Back in 2005, Norwegian researchers discovered ‘grid cells’ – special brain cells that track location just like a GPS, helping the brain maintain an internal map of its immediate environment. They won a Nobel Prize for their discovery in 2014. Now, however, it seems that grid cells can also track time and distance – crucial components of memory. According to Howard Eichenbaum from Boston University, his experiments on rats show

Your brain's GPS may help you navigate down memory lane

Back in 2005, Norwegian researchers discovered ‘grid cells’ – special brain cells that track location just like a GPS, helping the brain maintain an internal map of its immediate environment. They won a Nobel Prize for their discovery in 2014. Now, however, it seems that grid cells can also track time and distance – crucial components of memory. According to Howard Eichenbaum from Boston University, his experiments on rats show

Week in Tech: Week in Tech: Privacy worries, a OneDrive mess and the almost-time machine

It’s not every week that you see a dog covered in disco lights, discover the equation that might make time travel possible and have Twitter turn all your bookmarks into lovey-dovey love hearts. All those things happened this week, along with the revival of the dreaded Snooper’s Charter, Microsoft getting in a big huff about OneDrive abuse and Facebook pretty much owning the planet. Not only that, but robot dogs