The Game of Humanity is a free, fun, and educational journey through human history. It celebrates the miracle that we are here now — the culmination of almost 14 billion years of cosmic and global and microscopic activity that had to happen exactly as it did for us to be at all. Check it out at https://gameofhumanity.com.

Practice/Swing makes it easy to compare your practice and real swings in normal or slow motion. It trains you to swing at the ball the same way you practiced — that is, to “hit your practice swing.” If you’re like most of us, you’ll see immediate improvements — including better tempo, more solid contact, and greater confidence overall. Check it out on the App Store here.

Using an open-source version of Pac-Man, I stamped out “Wack Man” games skewering Trump, Nunes, DeSantis, McConnell, Santos, Musk, and others. The games are rigged to keep you from beating their namesakes by dimming the board as you play, until your last token is destroyed in the dark. Try one here.

iWas is a Mac app that organizes creates a calendar showing your emails, text messages, and phone calls — essentially a “backwards calendar” of your digital activities. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how seeing your day-to-day interactions with others as events on a calendar brings the past to life and makes your life feel fuller and richer.

AnalyzeThis is an iPhone app that shows us the emotional content of the words we use. The app “listens” when you (and/or others) talk and tracks six metrics based on the emotional value of the words used. It also displays a “cloud” of those words, emphasizing the words used most often.