A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 5
Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery.

News: Accio releases Mega Multilingual Word Find
Accio has released Mega Multilingual Word Find, a new word search game with a multilingual spin. The app features 20 categories, 10 languages and four board levels for hours or gameplay and language aficionados can unlock additional language packs to mix and match words from different languages, such as playing with English word lists and a Spanish puzzle board. In addition to classic word find ...

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

This Puzzle Is The Pits
Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with "PI" and the second word starts with "T."

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.