The daughter of an English professor and a teacher, Ms. Vincent received a master’s in public health while battling addiction. That year she helped start the North Carolina Survivors Union, among the first organizations in the country to offer safety rails for addicts who were struggling to quit.

Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist who analyzed ancient cauldrons, shards of pottery and broken bottles to discover and then recreate the alcoholic beverages that intoxicated prehistoric civilizations, including booze found in the tomb of King Midas, died last month. He was 80.

An archaeologist, he discovered and analyzed the residue of beverages imbibed by long-vanished civilizations and then figured out how to recreate them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

At any moment, he could cite how many times a president visited Camp David, flew on Air Force One, hosted championship sports teams, met with foreign heads of state, went on date nights and promised to not rest for the American people www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

‘My wife and I live apart so I can hunt the Loch Ness Monster’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/96b4700...

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters bbc.com/news/article...

She was a pivotal figure in linking quilts to the American experience — although she herself never stitched so much as a sweater in her life. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...

Polymathic, erudite and a trailblazer in a field dominated by men, Professor Boden helped shape the philosophical conversation about human and artificial intelligence for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

“We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from.” www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

“Don was a scoundrel, but he was a talented scoundrel and a colorful scoundrel — a well-intentioned scoundrel,” Lou DiBella, a boxing manager and former head of programming for HBO Sports. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...

‘Come With Me, Chuck E.’: Mouse Arrested on Credit Card Fraud Charges www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

Dan Pelzer read at least 3,599 books since 1962. After he died this month at 92, his family made his handwritten reading list public, hoping to motivate readers everywhere.

Called “the Willy Wonka of cheese” by Forbes magazine, Mr. Leprino owned a company that industrialized the production and sale of mozzarella, making him a seminal figure in the piping-hot rise of pizza on the American food pyramid, as well as a billionaire twice over. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

The Morlok Quads charmed Depression-era America with song-and-dance performances. Then they were each diagnosed with schizophrenia. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

“Ms. Holton said she contacted Amazon six times to file a complaint and was told she had to drop off the packages herself at an Amazon return location.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...

His work blended classic design with a loose ’60s-style energy, giving publications like Rolling Stone an identity that radiated with gravitas and personality. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/a...

Holy cow. CNN used to hold the No. 1 position with the NYT and the WashPost battling it out for No. 2. Now the Times is first, CNN second, and the Post is ... 17th. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

“When you see a total eclipse, you will realize for the first time what the meaning of awesome is,” Mr. Eclipse said. “Everything else is mundane.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

He called meteorites “the poor man’s space probe,” because they deliver pieces of asteroids that scientists are able to study without traveling to outer space. The mysteries in the stardust they carry — of diamonds, graphite and silicon carbide — are never-ending, like the stars.

Professor Anders spent his life trying to answer celestial, seemingly impossible questions, even as painful, seemingly inexplicable ones about his childhood haunted him. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/s...

Great obit of Amanda Feilding, Countess Who Drilled a Hole in Her Head, Dies at 82 - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

Known as Lady Mindbender and the Crackpot Countess, Ms. Feilding believed that psychedelic drugs could be used to treat depression and other maladies, now a promising area of scientific study. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

After he set about becoming a writer in the 1960s, his father — a hidebound judge who called him a “sissy” — sent family members to remove him from a Dublin pub and then had him committed to a psychiatric hospital. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...

After he set about becoming a writer in the 1960s, his father — a hidebound judge who called him a “sissy” — sent family members to remove him from a Dublin pub and then had him committed to a psychiatric hospital. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...

In seven novels, dozens of essays and a collection of short stories, she explored her Jewish upbringing during apartheid and the ways women negotiate sexual desire. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/b...

"If you’re a Southern boy, if it moves and it’s not supposed to, you use duct tape,” Mr. Smylie said. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

"If you’re a Southern boy, if it moves and it’s not supposed to, you use duct tape,” Mr. Smylie said. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

Astonishing to ponder how many babies he saved. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/s...

Caitlin Clark’s return to Carver-Hawkeye Arena featured the same sound as a jet engine at takeoff. Then it got even louder. @scottdochterman.bsky.social with more from Iowa:

This is a great obituary for Julia Parsons, a WWII Navy code breaker. She took the secrecy of her mission so seriously that she didn't reveal it to her family for decades after the war. Some men in the nat'l security world could learn from her example. #WeTheMen www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

Played Wordle every day on her iPad. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativi...

The creator of the Flying Eye Hospital. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/s...

What a wonderful essay! Great online presentation as well. Thanks for this, @mikerosenwald.bsky.social. I have fond memories of reading Nickell's Skeptical Inquirer columns.

"The world’s only full-time professional paranormal investigator." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/s...

A lot happening in this headline.

One of the kookiest episodes in the annals of April Fools’ tomfoolery, with a revenge plot involving a coconut cream pie.. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

"They were good coming in," Bellinger said. "I can say I will not eat wings for five years." www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

He wrote a book titled “How to Have Intercourse Without Getting Screwed” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...

In the early 1960s, before Mr. Springsteen became the Boss, he was a clumsy baseball player whose athletic abilities were so sad that Joe, the team’s star pitcher, gave him the nickname Saddie. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/a...

Peter Elbow, an English professor whose struggles with writer’s block led him to create a new way of teaching freshman composition that emphasized free-writing exercises, personal reflection and peer feedback over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students, died on Feb. 6 in Seattle.

Peter Elbow, an English professor whose struggles with writer’s block led him to create a new way of teaching freshman composition that emphasized free-writing exercises, personal reflection and peer feedback over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students, died on Feb. 6 in Seattle.