Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan .  Some 20 years ago, an Indian colleague and friend told me about Ramanu...

Excellent article exploring (and explaining) something that is counter-intuitive to almost everyone: truly random data doesn't look ra...

Dave Mandl writes (intro) : There’s a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who’ve moved from the academic study of computer scienc...

Courtesy of the incomparable Rachel Lucas .  Read it, and send the links to your favorite believers in the efficacy of gun control...

Wow:

Excerpt from Mark Steyn's piece: It would not be imprudent to expect that an ever-broker America, with more divorce, fewer fathers, t...

Best piece on gun control I've read in a while ...

A couple of good sources for free or cheap icons and graphic elements: here and here ...

This post in Nature is about the biological sciences, but it's just as applicable to climate science .  The old saw “Follow the money!”...

They're all online now .  Awesome.

Curiosity is pouring science data down to Earth.  Here's a close-up look at a Martian rock, courtesy of the Mars Hand Lens Imager:

The Cassini team created this composite from over 60 images filtered from infrared, red, and violet ranges :

Via reader Jim M.: But not everyone is as lucky as I am... The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. I o...

I first ran into this many years ago, when working for Xscribe (a now-defunct company that made computerized stenographic systems for court...

Some seasonal advice, via reader, friend, and colleague Doug S. ( full resolution ):

This was sent to me in an email, allegedly a true story from a classroom in Nashville, Tennessee.  I'm doubtful of its provenance, so I...

Weird things happen in the Amazon , like this one: a tiny little spider making a much bigger fake spider from bits of dead leaves and oth...

This is just awesome – the Pythagorean Theorem in a beautiful and intuitive visualization (a demonstration, really)!

That's the title of this Wall Street Journal ($) piece, and here's its intro: It's clear by now that the budget talks are drif...

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