Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
Sometimes mathematics chases its own tail
In her new book The Weil Conjectures, Karen Olsson ruminates on the trajectories of André and Simone Weil
Mathematics-inspired manipulations of scripture
These integers have inspired one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics
2400 years separate two people with whom this computer science term is associated
These blissful integers are a bit mysterious
Because you know it has to be when you write 400 words explaining it
Gary Urton explains what we can and cannot know about Inka khipus
Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes opens the door to some interesting questions
Moon Duchin shares an abstract theorem with surprising connections to gerrymandering