An article in July's PNAS investigates the possibility of predicting a person's Social Security number from their birth date and pl...

My good friend and computer scientest Kyle Burke has recently started a highly interesting blog on his research field: combinatorial game t...

Barbara Ehrenreich had an excellent article in yesterday's New York Times on the many ways that being poor can land you in trouble with ...

It is by now common wisdom that our current financial crisis is due in large part to misplaced incentives in our financial system. Analysts...

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...