47 Results
The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World
How a math professor learned to stop worrying and love algebraic geometry.
Does Scrabble Need To Be Fixed?
An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck.
Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
What math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives.
Pick the Statistic You Want to Be
Understanding the odds lets you play with them.
How to Teach Science with Sugar and Cream
High school teachers are bringing ice cream into the lab.
Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark
The father of information theory built a machine to game roulette, then abandoned it.
The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary
Science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe.
The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World
Near-miss math provides exact representations of almost-right answers.
- Biology
- Culture
- Ideas
- Matter
- Numbers
- Aerodynamics
- Aliens
- Animals
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Art
- Artificial Intelligence
- Astronomy
- Chemistry
- Climate
- Cognitive Science
- Computer Science
- Cryptography
- Earth Science
- Economics
- Education
- Environment
- Evolution
- Fiction
- Fine Art
- Food
- Genetics
- Health
- History
- Information Theory
- Insects
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Math
- Memoir
- Microbiology
- Mortality
- Music
- Neuroscience
- Oceanography
- Paleontology
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Physiology
- Psychology
- Reproduction
- Science Practice
- Sociology
- Technology
- The Web