love among the equations
[NOTE: This post originally appeared at our new home at Scientific America.] Four years ago on this date, the Time Lord and I officially tied …
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physicists embrace the splatter master
[Originally posted at our new home at Scientific American.] What is it about painter Jackson Pollock that physicists find so entrancing? His notorious drip paintings …
desperately seeking sonya
Jen-Luc Piquant and I are heading out to Oregon State University today, as I am a featured speaker at OSU's first Sonia Kovaleskaya Mathematics Day, …
dueling dualities
Every year, Edge founder John Brockman asks a big question and fields responses from big-thinking scientists and writers — including the Spousal Unit (and 155 …
boyz will be boyz
Since joining Twitter earlier this year, I've become a Tweet-happy fool, easily overtaking the Spousal Unit in sheer volume of Tweets. (It helps that so …
physicists put on their poker face
Jen-Luc Piquant has donned her poker face today and for good reason. This morning the Spousal Unit was chuffed to find his latest online issue …
we are in…like…so much in trouble… episode two.
In my grouchier moments (one of which I am having right now), I am considering a public relations campaign to make fun of people who can’t do simple math and shame them into either acquiring some fundamental skills or staying quiet and not bothering the rest of us with their ignorance.
change and motion
It's here! Today is the official publication date for The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a …
_+3=5+7=_: it depends what ‘equals’ equals
Pop quiz! Answer the following before reading further: A: 6+9=__+4 B: __+8=12+5 C: __+3=5+7=__ D: True or False: 6+8=3+11 E: 160=___ I've become painfully aware …
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_+3=5+7=_: it depends what ‘equals’ equals
Pop quiz! Answer the following before reading further: A: 6+9=__+4 B: __+8=12+5 C: __+3=5+7=__ D: True or False: 6+8=3+11 E: 160=___ I've become painfully aware …
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