Ideas June 1, 2017 7:04 AM EDT Board games tend to feel timeless. But as Tristan Donovan argues in his new book, It’s All a Game, the ways board games evolve reflect the values of the time. Consider the game of Life, which began in 1860 “as a thinly disguised Sunday school sermon,” Donovan writes, with spaces on the board promoting virtues and punishing vices. A century later, as American industry boomed, it was remarketed with a capitalistic message.

The immediate past Olubadan, Oba Olalekan Balogun died on Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan. The late monarch spent two years on the throne and died at the age of 81. However, the Balogun of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin has been identified as the next in line to rule the third-largest city by population in Nigeria. ADVERTISEMENT The succession structure of the Olubadan throne consists of two lines.

Your credit score may seem like three insignificant digits, but those numbers can affect your ability to apply for a loan or credit card. If your credit score is good, you probably don’t give it too much thought—but a sudden drop will likely be cause for alarm. There are several reasons your credit score could drop, some of which are within your control and others that are not. Learn more about why your credit score could be dropping, and what you can do to improve it once you’ve identified the reason for the drop.

nicolas hansen / Getty Images According to a new study from University of California Los Angeles researchers, ladies who settled down with Mr. Stable over Mr. Steamy are  less likely to be sexually attracted to their partner during their most fertile period than women who paired up with sexually-desirable men. Not all that surprising, except that in some studies of reproductive survival, women are more attracted to and more likely to mate with stable rather than purely attractive men in an attempt to secure a more lasting environment in which to raise a family.

When sperm donation first took off in the U.S. in the 1980s, the typical medical advice was to keep it a secret from the kids it helped create. “Doctors were saying to parents, ‘Just pretend that this donor insemination didn’t happen,’” says Susan Golombok, who’s been studying modern methods of family formation for more than 40 years. Though there were no formal guidelines, the conventional wisdom surrounding families built with the help of donor genetics—which later came to include egg donation and surrogacy—was that the knowledge could confuse or even psychologically harm them.