I sat terrified and alone atop a gurney, awaiting the scheduled time for my cystectomy, holding a clipboard with forms to complete as the nurse rushed off to do something else. There was a box to ...

Cognitive dissonance happens when you hold two conflicting thoughts in your mind at the same time — like loving both hamburgers and cows. Cognitive dissonance is a theory in social psychology first ...

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...

Let's be honest, we're all drama queens sometimes. Whether you're texting your bestie you're “literally dying” over the latest celebrity gossip or declaring on social media that Monday mornings are ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

A lot of people use apps like Microsoft Word to create documents with interactive checkboxes. For instance, you'd need to insert checkboxes if you're putting together a to-do list (and don't want to ...

Here's how to build smarter checklists in Excel using checkboxes, conditional formatting and task dependencies to help with multi-step processes. In my previous article in this series, I walked you ...

Learn how to add, configure and use checkboxes in Excel to create interactive task lists and trigger formatting without relying on macros. Recently, Microsoft has introduced the ability to add ...