Planets with screwy orbits
Ever since astronomers started finding planets orbiting other stars, they have been learning just how rich and peculiar the cosmos…
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Ever since astronomers started finding planets orbiting other stars, they have been learning just how rich and peculiar the cosmos…
For CR magazine, I wrote a profile of Randy Pendergrass, a cancer survivor and nutritionist at St. Thomas Hospital here…
What's the hardest straight-in shot in pool? Mathematician tries to find out in this article for New Scientist. This article…
My first feature was a piece about unsolved problems in mathematics, published in Discover in 2006. Read it here.
Unsolved problems make for good stories. In this case, a couple of mathematicians cracked the little-known "Pizza Conjecture," a rigorous…
Once the most feared disease on the planet, smallpox killed countless people in the course of human history. The first signs…
In 2006, shortly after Grigory Perelman famously refused the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré Conjecture, a mathematician…
Some would argue that the water flowing from a fissure in a rock in Moore County, Tennessee, is made for…
In 1957, marketing executive James Vicary claimed that during screenings of the film Picnic, the words “eat popcorn” and “drink Coca-Cola”…
Frank Farris is a mathematician who has some wild ideas about wallpapering your hyperbolic house. I wrote about him for…