3.22.16 This Is What DEFCON Sounds Like: Skyking Emergency Action Messages General Curtis LeMay, known in the Air Force as father of USAF Strategic Air...

A voyager named Tupaia guided Captain James Cook through the South Seas and drew an island-filled chart that has puzzled scholars for more than 250 years

Sorry about the click-baity noscript, but it’s not an overstatement. We ran the numbers. Reading time: 8 min. By Raymond Gulbrandsen.

Passengers hate mental math — and other lessons from one billion New York City cab rides.

Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue

For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?

And how debate was shut-down to protect "science"

This is going to be a somewhat experimental post. In class, I mentioned that when solving the type of homework problems encountered in a graduate real analysis course, there are really only about a…

I’ve been using #AnnotatedEquations in my recent papers. I think it really adds to the readability and understanding of the math.

Here are some examples. It uses #tikz in #latex.

Let me know if you like it. Happy for any feedback. [GitHub link: next tweet]…

Permafrost contains microbes, mammoths, and twice as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere. What happens when it starts to melt?

How does an A.I. generate waifus and husbandos? Utilizing the power of machine learning algorithms, see how we taught an A.I. to make these magic anime portraits in the form of generative art.

Emails to Dr Anthony Fauci show ‘likely’ explanation identified at start of coronavirus pandemic, but there were worries about saying so