Hi everyone.

My name is Tom Wiseman, I was born in Oxford a quarter of a century ago. I am about to embark upon an English teaching career which was born in a classroom on an Oxfordian

I was doing a bit of drawing on my flight back from Houston last weekend, and looking back I'm surprised to find that all my sketches were taking the form of sort of a peculiar genre...ANIME. I'm not so artistic, and I kind of gave up the lead pencil senior year of high school when

Traveling à la deux can be a lovely experience—but it can also be a minefield of lost luggage, petty bickering, and cramped quarters. Having spent more than two years on the road with my (still current) boyfriend, I know the ins and outs of being a couple on the move; here are my top recommendations for

Somewhere, somehow, the nacho eclipsed its humble origins in Mexico to become a staple of American bar food. How this happened, and how the nacho (in my mind) eclipsed the potato skin as America's favorite cheese topped finger food, is a subject ripe for exploration.

In case you haven’t noticed, today is April Fool’s Day, or Poisson d’Avril as it’s known to the French. It’s a day on which it’s completely appropriate to treat people horribly in the name of laughter. I remember when I was 10 and I put saran wrap over my mom’s toilet

Summer trip-planning is in full swing around these parts. I would like to go to Mongolia, so hopefully the government will agree to sponsor my fact-finding mission, which seeks to answer the question on the tip of everyone’s tongue: “What really goes on in Mongolia?”

In the second edition of “Animal cruelty, or literally the best thing ever?”, we present the Indonesian monkey who can ride motorcycles. You be the judge

Sometimes the simplest things are the most fun, like a nice stroll on a Spring day or an afternoon Hills marathon. Sometimes, the simplest things can also be the most infuriating—terrible Starbucks coffee lids that always leak or Carlos Mencia’s jokes, for example. This video game

There are countless options for listening to music online while you’re at work. The Hype Machine recently upgraded with a bunch of new features, and you could also stream a little National Public Radio to get your bluegrass fix.

We all love the The New York Times in our own unique ways. Some people enjoy buying the enormous Sunday edition, throwing away almost all of it, and then pretending to do the crossword while they drink Hoegaardens or