A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 5
Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery.

What Cuts Power in Half
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Daily iPad App: Puzzlejuice
Puzzlejuice is an inventive new game from the creators of Solipskier . Mike and Greg's Greg Wohlwend and partner Asher Vollmer have created a hardcore puzzle game that spans the genre and lets you sort it all out. The basic mechanic of Puzzlejuice is more or less that of Tetris. Blocks fall from the top of the screen which you must arrange into complete lines. Once you do, however, they don't ...

The ultimate TV dinner
Can you survive four weeks eating only food advertised on TV? Twenty years after its first broadcast I can still recite every word to the advert for Kellogg's Pop-Tarts. "Put 'em in your toaster, they pop out hot… Four great flavours and they're waiting for you." I remember the immediate, frenzied parental petition these lyrics induced ("For God's sake start the car," my 10-year-old self would ...

5 Indy schools' students succeed despite poverty and other challenges
Principal Joyce Akridge grabbed a microphone during first-grade lunch at Indianapolis Public School 79. The chattering quickly hushed. Dozens of smiling faces turned toward her.