21+ hour, 17+ min ago   (191+ words) In August, Cambridge’s youngest, widely celebrated black professor apparently committed suicide shortly after resigning amid plagiarism allegations — three days after his eagerly awaited book had dropped. Plenty of blame has been assigned. At Right Times, David Keighley looks at the…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (332+ words) At Graphs About Religion, Washington University political scientist Ryan Burge looks at FIRE’s battery of questions about freedom of speech, put to 68,000 students at 250 U.S. colleges this year (offering illustrative graphs): The third statement was, “shouting down a speaker to…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (525+ words) There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude is making big breakthroughs in math. The most recent claim concerns Fermat’s Last Theorem. The Theorem1 says that it’s impossible to find three whole numbers…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (140+ words) Here’s a discussion between Dr. Luján Comas and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, dubbed for Spanish speakers, in conjunction with the translation of The Immortal Mind: (2025) into Spanish — La mente inmortal (2026). A special feature of the Spanish translation is an introduction by…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (997+ words) Great programmers must be able to break big problems down into smaller pieces. That’s the challenge for this week’s Microsofty. There are five parts to this puzzle. The challenge increases with each one. The solution gets mathy. See how far…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (848+ words) In 2010, Stephen Hawking opened his co-written book, The Grand Design, Hawking, Stephen, Mlodinow, Leonard – Amazon.com, with a sentence that is self-refuting: “Philosophy is dead.” Hawking argued that the biggest questions about the universe was for physicists to answer or…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (839+ words) Computer geeks are often nerds. Many nerds feel uncomfortable in social situations and awkward in groups. However, learning to move past this discomfort is important for successful networking. With that in mind, here is a puzzle that connects social confidence…...