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PLUS: How to win fights with your family, turkey physics, and how to avoid Black Friday scams. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 11.26.20   GIFT GUIDE Wish List 2020: Gift Ideas for Your Social Bubble and Beyond BY WIRED STAFF From a modern-classic electric guitar to a wire-free VR headset, here are 45 options for spreading joy—and not Covid.   PSYCHOLOGY Win Family Fights This Holiday—With Behavioral Science BY BRYAN GARDINER Effective argumentation is mostly about choosing the right strategy. And that means knowing a little bit about how people think … and don't think.   PHYSICS Want a Perfect Turkey? Calculate Its Specific Heat Capacity BY RHETT ALLAIN Really, Thanksgiving is all about thermal transfer.   FOOD SCIENCE Think Tryptophan Is to Blame for Thanksgiving Sleepies? BY JENNIFER CHAUSSEE Think again, you drunken glutton! GET WIRED We just couldn't wait another week! The Pre-Cyber Week Sale is here. Get one year of WIRED for just $10 $5. Tech news and analysis you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe now   STAY SAFE How to Avoid Black Friday Scams Online BY DAVID NIELD 'Tis the season for scammers and hackers. Here's how to stay safe out there.   DIGITAL CULTURE The Ethics of Rebooting the Dead BY JANET MANLEY The notion of resurrecting people as digital entities is becoming less hypothetical. But just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be.   REWRITING HISTORY The Quest to Unearth One of America's Oldest Black Churches BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER First Baptist Church was founded in secret in 1776. It's been hidden under a parking lot in Colonial Williamsburg for decades—a metaphor for the failures of archaeology and American history.   BLACK FRIDAY Every Great Black Friday Deal on Google Devices BY MATT JANCER AND GEAR TEAM Google has discounted its new Pixel phones this weekend, along with Nest speakers and other Google smart home devices.   STUPID SMART Can I Save Money by Buying a 'Dumb' TV? BY WHITSON GORDON Every Black Friday we get the same question: "Do I have to buy a smart TV?" Well, the short answer is yes, if you want an HDTV that's worth the money.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions