If you had to pick your favorite type of puzzle, what would you choose? I am a wordnerd at heart. The cryptics will just occupy me. Do you read rex parker? You know what's funny is, i don't think he's sow bu times. He writes a daily column about the new york times crossword. And it's very funny, but very snarky and very high standards.
How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.