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The Coin Toss and the Love Triangle

There are two flavors of uncertainty in our lives. Math helps with both.

May 22, 2013

Parenthood, the Great Moral Gamble

The decision to have a child is more ethically uncertain than you might realize.

May 22, 2013

The Genome in Turmoil

Hope your week went well. It might have changed your genetics.

May 22, 2013

The Rise of the Uncertain

Uncertainty in physics has gone from black sheep to overachiever.

May 22, 2013

Artificial Emotions

How long until a robot cries?

April 29, 2013

Encounters with the Posthuman

As bodies meld with machines, are we leaving ourselves behind?

April 22, 2013

Goodbye Copernicus, Hello Universe

Our insignificance, and significance, on a cosmic scale

April 22, 2013

Cooperation Is What Makes Us Human

Where we part ways with our ape cousins.

April 22, 2013

Cooperation Is What Makes Us Human

Where we part ways with our ape cousins.

April 22, 2013

The Candle Burned

Welcome to the future, where people read no more.

April 22, 2013

Metaphors Are Us

War, murder, music, art. We would have none without metaphor.

April 22, 2013

Dress for Evolutionary Success

What makes us quintessentially human? Fashion!

April 22, 2013