Why do attempted murderers get less jail time than murderers? Why is a drunken driver who hits a tree punished less than one who hits a per...

First of all, a personal triumph: I've had my first academic paper accepted! "A New Phylogenetic Diversity Measure Generalizing the...

This post is also taken from the excellent Evolutionary Dynamics course taught by Martin Nowak at Harvard. The progression of HIV in the hu...

I'm currently taking an amazing class offered by the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard. The goal of the course (and t...

So President Bush has finally taken a complex systems view of the economy: Stupidity aside, he's entirely correct: our economy is highly...

The federal government is set to take over mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Earlier this summer, the government rescued the...

Consider the following two images: First view each image as is, and then click on them to see larger versions. Ignore for a moment the diff...