There are people —most of them rich, a few of them self-aware, and many of them self-involved —that pay exorbitant sums of money to go on meditative retreats during which they are treated to the soul ...

Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Bean is a lightweight, Cocoa-based word processor for Macs. When we highlighted NeoOffice, the Mac-like port of OpenOffice.org, a lot of readers wanted to ...

People often ask me if I collect anything. I do, but it’s not a tangible collection the way a collection of toy figurines, or Swiss posters, or snowglobes would. I “collect” words that aren’t ...

In our age of Facebook and Twitter, we know all too well how fast words can spread. When I was a kid, we played the game telephone, passing a word or phrase around the circle by whispering it into ...

In the new HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and his longtime buddy Bill Gates recall the moment when they each took a scrap of paper and, without consulting one ...