Dear Reader | Solving the puzzles and other challenges
Attention puzzle lovers: New brain-teaser options are coming your way.
Santa Fe Institute lecture delves into field of culturomics
To borrow from the Bard, what's in a word? When and how often a word is used in literature says a lot about culture, society and trends, claim researchers who created a computer program to analyze words and phrases in millions of books.
Fishing Rules, a Different Sort of Nun and Other NYTimes.com Reader Tales
Readers from across New York City share their stories and poems.
Metropolitan Diary: Fishing Rules, a Different Sort of Nun and Other Reader Tales
Readers from across New York City share their stories and poems.
Richard Bangs: The Savage Craic Of Western Ireland, Part 1 (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
We pass a string of shuttered pubs. "A good puzzle would be to cross Ireland without passing a pub," James Joyce quipped. But with the fall from Celtic Tiger to Celtic Kitten in the past years, and with new indoor anti-cigarette laws, and stricter laws on drunk driving, folks are staying closer to home.