The following question was given as a homework problem in a course I'm TAing: CNBC had an interesting program on the current financial c...

Biologically,modern humans first appeared 160,000 to 200,000 years ago. But the transition to complex human societies, with art, music, adv...

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...