This is off-topic, but am I the only one to find all nytimes articles utterly useless? They're all very well written and interesting, but after reading them I never know more then I did before. I've made a habit of not clicking them, but then I find some interesting title and click... only to again waste 5 minutes.
This article is a writeup of someone else's writeup. Keeping an eye out for publications with surprising findings is a good way to fill that last bit of space in the science section, but it's not going to reproduce all the details. It does give you enough information (PNAS and two authors' names) to find the real article pretty quickly, and that turns out to be open access:
I'd say that I like the nytimes. Comparing it to other newspapers the articles seem a lot better written and more informative (possibly with the exception of the multi-page spreads that local papers sometimes produce).
At the minimum it seems to be of the same level of quality of any other decently sized newspaper. I can think of an independent newspaper that has some extremely well written articles, but it seems to me that the problem is more with the format rather than the nytimes. So what newspapers are more informative?
I'm not sure if there are any newspapers that are more informative. Perhaps the Irish Times, probably not the Seattle P.I.
Harder news sources like scientific and technical journals, and a very few websites and the occasional magazine like the Atlantic monthly and the economist are about the only things that come to mind.
