I wrote a while back on a high school that uses games as its primary pedagogical tool. NPR's All Things Considered has a new report o...

Evolution-inspired animated street art, and one of the most amazing works of art I've seen in any medium:

I may be primarily an evolutionary theorist nowadays, but I have many interests, and this summer is proving to be a good time to explore som...

Well... it's been quite a month. This April I (a) successfully defended my PhD thesis, and (b) won a Templeton Foundation fellowship to...

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 ...