From the Beacon: What's a 5-letter word for crossword puzzle fans? Books
Did you know that crossword puzzles have been around for nearly 100 years? The first such puzzle, cr

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.

Actually, I've Tried Google Ads And Facebook Ads And Facebook Ads Are Much Better...
When a few weeks back my friend and occasional interviewer, Henry Blodget , the CEO of Business Insider , tweeted word of a new BI piece defending Google (with the characteristically understated headline, “ Like Hell Facebook is Killing Google �), I tweeted back to Henry that I’d be happy to take the other side of that argument.

Check out the Red Planet's craziest colors
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A picture from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter paints the Red Planet in shades of blue, yellow and green — but there's a method in the madness.

Crazy colors from the Red Planet
There's not much red in this picture of the Red Planet, produced by the high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Browns and blues and greens and yellows and violets ... but red? Not so much.