The Math Ceiling: Where’s your cognitive breaking point?

Adults recall math as a sort of NCAA tournament. Everybody gets eliminated. It's only a question of how long you stay in the game.

The Newcomb Paradox

It seems obvious. You’d be crazy to leave the guaranteed $1000 behind, right?

Our teacher's gone utterly crazy, and no one can fathom her wrath. She wants us to do the impossible...

In college, I was one of those compulsive read-everything kids, except in one subject: my major.

When it comes to area, everything is rectangles.

with sincere apologies to Wallace Stevens

So if "applied" means "useful," doesn't it follow that "pure" must mean... "useless"?

Did you find your jaw hanging open wider than a Warner Brothers cartoon? Check "yes" or "no."

Students worship the Right Answer because that god delivers.

Uncertainty is scary. It's also the birthplace of learning.