What I learned trying to keep up with my 4-year-old daughter at the royal game — My 4-year-old daughter and I were deep into a game of checkers one day about three years ago when her eye drifted to a nearby table. There, a black and white board bristled with far more interesting figures, like horses and castles. “What’s that?” she asked. “Chess,” I replied. “Can…

We may not be able to sweat our way through the heat — In 1980, a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden, began pumping cooling effluent from its reactors into “Biotest Lake,” a manmade, 84-hectare enclosed body of water jutting out from the Baltic Sea. Separated from its aquatic environs and featuring a habitat that was consistently some six to 10 degrees Celsius…