Our dash to get ahead, to climb the ladder, to acquire possessions, to get to our destination faster, are symptoms of our mortality. We know that our time is limited.

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We are just hours away from ringing in the new year. Plan on heading to Times Square in NYC? Here's what you need to know.

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New York’s ball-drop celebration is more than a century old. One important fact about this year: You are likely to get wet.

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Newspaper editor Arthur Wynne created the modern-day crossword puzzle in 1913. They caught on during World War I and continue to delight today.

The New York Times' Connections puzzle challenges players to group words into four thematic categories. The December 20th puzzle (#558) featured particularly tricky themes, ranging from verbs to ...

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The challenge was to construct a square with area equal to that of a given circle. Within the confines of Euclidean geometry, only a ruler and compass may be used, and the solution must be exact.