This week, a conversation flared up on Twitter on whether mathematics can carry human biases, and what such a possibility could even mean. T...

2019 was a lot of things. But for what I want to say here, 2019 was the year that I realized we might not save ourselves. Just on its fac...

Two weeks ago, my friend Andi messaged me about a mathematical game she had invented.  She was so excited to share it.  She had coded up a...

Donald Trump is poised to become the next US president, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton received over a million more votes than him (...

Eight years ago, I had finished my first year of graduate school in math, and I was at a loss as to what to research.  My original focus, d...

This post is not about science. I'm writing this because the horrific news out of Ferguson, Missouri—the killing of an unarmed man ...

My friend Daria Roithmayr alerted me to a working paper of Brian Arthur laying out a vision for a new approach to studying economics.  Br...