Last post , I used the example of a protest against peanut allergy-related procedures to explore how the American conception of "ri...

Parents are picketing a school in Edgewater, Florida because of restrictions the school put in place to protect a child with a peanut aller...

Like many of my fellow lefties, I'm disillusioned with current US politics. In my view, we have a president who pursued an admirable, a...

Found on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal , via The Astronomist , the cleanest illustration I've seen anywhere of the Prisoner's Di...

This weekend I saw "Waiting for Superman" a documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim of Inconvenient Truth fame.  It's ostens...

One of the aims of this blog is to give the general public a sense of what we applied mathematicians and other non-laboratory scientists act...