Note: This recipe must be prepared in advance. "OK, local strawberry season is nowhere in sight, but there’s never a local banana season, and that doesn’t stop us from eating bananas all year long," wrote Al Sicherman in the March 9, 2000…
Given the time and money people lavish on their pets, it's remarkable how little we appear to understand them. Recently at the dog park, for example, I watched a woman with an enormous Great Dane puppy doing everything in her power to turn him …
IBM Corp. researchers reckon they’ve come up with new algorithms capable of enabling advanced machine learning on quantum computers. In a paper published today on arXiv, a repository for non-peer-reviewed academic papers, IBM’s research team descri…
I'm not sure how it is for most novelists, but when I create characters, their faces always look a little blurry to me. Though I come to know who these people are in the important ways — their general physical selves and how it feels to be arou…
There are many ways to book a vacation: You can do it directly with hotels and airlines, through a travel agent, through third-party sites or separately through aggregators such as Google Flights. The choices can be overwhelming, and might lead tra…
“Today, painting is dead.” Those were the words that acclaimed painter Paul Delaroche is alleged to have uttered when he saw a photograph for the first time. It’s also the inspiration for a new exhibit showcasing nearly 250 of the earliest photogra…