On Tuesday, my Erdos number dropped from infinity to four. That's right: after four years of grad school, I am now officially publishe...

A new school is opening in New York for grades 6-12 that completely blows my mind. The Quest to Learn school combines games and complex sy...

This is just a brief note to let everyone know I'm spending the summer at IIASA , a scientific policy research institute located just ou...

From the "nothing is quite so simple" department, a Boston Globe article this week points out a hidden legacy of the conservation...

A New York Times Magazine article raises an issue I've been thinking a lot about lately. If you are, as I am, a scientist concerned ab...

"To live outside the law you must be honest" -Bob Dylan I just finished "Gang Leader for a Day", a memior in which socio...

The New York Times has an article on eminent physicist Freeman Dyson's skepticism of climate change arguments. Several passages struck...