Quite honestly, I have written and re-written the lede for this column approximately 10 times — both in my head and typing it on my on-screen keyboard. Fortunately, the unexpected heat wave that ...

While playing a video game on my mobile device, I saw an ad for a game called Block Blast. The premise of Block Blast is that there is an 8×8 square, and you are given three blocks to fit within the ...