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    • Dancer’s Haul

      Dancer’s Haul

      New York Times· 2 days ago

      Ella Dershowitz calls us by (some of) our names — or does she? Note to readers: In the past, Wordplay indicated crossword clues with quotation marks....

    • Targets of Pull-Down Exercises, in Brief

      Targets of Pull-Down Exercises, in Brief

      New York Times· 3 days ago

      Brad Wiegmann has new takes on old wisdom. WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Brad Wiegmann’s puzzle has no big reveal — unlike the magician in this column’s image, yuk...

    • Geeking Out Over a Word’s History

      New York Times· 7 days ago

      A headline on a 2021 New York Times article made a bold claim: President Biden was a geek. The noun “geek” dates to the late 19th century, when it was an American slang word

    • In Defense of Calling Everything an Aesthetic

      The Cut· 2 days ago

      “Posts that do not relate to the academic study of aesthetics will be removed,” TheRealMisterMan proclaimed, and image posts were banned. To get it out of the way, aesthetic is still defined ...