I'm briefly coming up from the sea of thesis preparation (two weeks until defense!) to share this truly remarkable quote I just read: Co...

A while ago, I wrote on the hypothesis that humans have essentially stopped evolving genetically, because of our cultural emphasis on keepi...

Mathematicians occupy an odd place in the public imagination, as objects of great curiosity and also great misunderstanding. TV and movies ...

As a mathematical evolutionary theorist, I use abstract methods to investigate how the structure of an evolutionary process determines wheth...

The New York Times Year in Review section always has some good ones. Some highlights for me from this year: Does feeling like a fraud make...

We are living in an age of, amongst other things, excellent graphic novels. One shining example, which I have just finished reading, is LOG...

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...