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After what I spent on my girlfriend's Christmas present, I'm going to need to know how to eat good and cheap for a long, long while. Leanne Brown took her first steps towards writing Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day...

Anymore it wouldn't be Christmas without a new Star Wars movie, and a whole bunch of new Star Wars crap to go with it. Not that I'm knocking The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It looks like a fine journey through...

Ahhh, remember the Fletch days? The days when investigative reporting got to the bottom of real, important issues like fake illnesses, murder schemes, drug trafficking, hot rich wives, and daydreams of playing for the...

What game could be better than combining leading and inappropriate partial thoughts to make profane and hysterical complete ones? Joking Hazard. A game that combines leading and inappropriate partial thoughts to make...

The Undoing Project isn't so much a story of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's Prospect theory as it is of the uncanny, almost twin-like kinship and professional symbiosis the men developed during their...

Do you know what your 50 favorite ingredients are? The editors of Cook's Illustrated do, and in Cook's Science they're going to teach you how to take those ingredients' flavor and mother F'ing unlock it...

Despite having Time Ferriss' name attached to it, Tools of Titans does not try to teach you how to become a billionaire or major world player in 4 hours. (If you're not familiar, Ferriss wrote the bestselling The 4-hour...

How would your kids feel if instead of another dumb first person shooter game you gave them a captivating and robust second person driver game for the holidays this year? Ungrateful and sulky? OK then, guess you'll just...

Wait, what? Topps says its 2016 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 cards are suitable for ages 6+? The box set is listed as a "brand new 2016" edition, so you'd think they realize it's 2016. And that no hypersensitive, Purel-obsessed...

On the one hand, Sarah Cooper's 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings seems like the perfect Secret Santa or White Elephant gift for this year's office holiday party. But on the other hand...psssshhh! I'm not giving...

Bah humbug. This Night Riderz glowing version of Slackers' backyard zip line kit has a 150-pound max carry weight. So after you pay for it, you unpack it, and you spend your entire Sunday off installing the 100' steel...

Here you go, D&D fans. Some weekend reading for you. Make sure your game, or your DM's leadership, isn't getting stale. Authors The Wizards RPG Team promise Volo's Guide to Monsters is much more than another monster manual...

Codeybot brings some STEM education to kids whose eyes and fingers crave tablets and touch screens. The rolling robot will be their interactive buddy, their entertainer, or their solider in battle...as long as they program...

Maybe the only thing stranger than the Codex Seriphinianus is the codex that inspired the Codex Seriphinianus: The "Voynich Manuscript." Still a mystery 600 years after an unknown author penned it, the original codex...

The people who rattled our game nights with Exploding Kittens think we're up for a new challenge: an army of evil and grotesque babies. Bears vs. Babies is another ridiculous card game filled with implausible (but not...

I guess one good thing about chucking Toferner's Throwing Axe is so many of its sides are sharp and pointy that even if you're an inexperienced marksman with poor aim you'll still have a pretty good chance of making it...

Atlas Obscura has a glowing endorsement from Neil Gaiman on its front cover, which can only mean this Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders is my Door to London Below. Or maybe Red, White, and Black Londons...

I can't predict what's going to happen on Election Day 2016, but my search for answers led me to this: The Survival Medicine Handbook, a self-described "essential guide for when medical help is NOT on the way." Kind of...

You could wait for Black Friday. Orrrr, you could make today Red & Orange with Accents of White & Black Friday, and get the Nerf N-Strike Mega Mastodon a solid 6 weeks early so you'll have time to test it out yourself...make...

Questions for Terrible People, a group to which I'm 90% sure I belong, contains 250 What If?s, Would you Rather?s, and What Would You Do?s. The book will be a psychological feast for me on the long ass flight I have to...

Need a gift for a geek? This one has all the necessary elements--eggheady challenge, fidget-friendly finger work, comes in a gift box, hey, it's even called The Geek Box. A set of 6 wooden puzzles that should be a no-brainer...

Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World went viral before it even came out. The heinous, vile, terrorizing kind of viral. Like "Friday," except Outbreak!'s viral permeations literally killed millions...