Science fiction is full of examples of humans and machines interacting verbally, but until recently any attempts at voice recognition have been met with limited success. Even today the level of success attained by advanced tools like Siri is up for debate. If you’re lucky enough to speak English without ...

Age: 10 months, 3 weeks, 6 days Charlotte has almost completely recovered from her virus. It's been, frankly, horrid. She's had colds from time to time, and the constant runny nose isn't anything especially new, except in terms of the … Continue reading →

My first experience with The Phantom Tollbooth (as with so much else that made a lasting impression on me) came from Childcraft. In the supplemental “Mathemagic” volume there was an excerpt of Milo’s visit to Digitopolis, land of numbers, where he encounters the Dodecahedron and the Mathemagician. The episode includes ...

My first experience with The Phantom Tollbooth (as with so much else that made a lasting impression on me) came from Childcraft. In the supplemental “Mathemagic” volume there was an excerpt of Milo’s visit to Digitopolis, land of numbers, where he encounters the Dodecahedron and the Mathemagician. The episode includes ...

My first experience with The Phantom Tollbooth (as with so much else that made a lasting impression on me) came from Childcraft. In the supplemental “Mathemagic” volume there was an excerpt of Milo’s visit to Digitopolis, land of numbers, where he encounters the Dodecahedron and the Mathemagician. The episode includes ...

Beta Dad's kids are learning to express their innermost desires and fears

One of my favorite parenting-related moments in Victorian poetry comes quite early in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, when the orphaned title character reflects on the differences between mothers and fathers: Women know The way to rear up children, (to be just,) They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And ...

Beta Dad agonizes over what words to use for where the sun don't shine.

MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of His Son's First Words, Graphs It: From the day he...

If only because of the name, I’m pleasantly surprised that Sabine seems to enjoy this remix of the latest from Cassius.