The real award is that you competed. The golden ratio is famous, but maybe more so as an image of a nautilus shell with a rectangle drawn around it than as the actual idea of the ratio it embodies: “A ...

‘I love the act of mixing a cocktail in a decorative beaker with a long bar spoon,” Michael Ruhlman writes in his latest brief book. “As one bartender told me, part of the pleasure of a cocktail is ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...