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I chanced upon Alon Amit's amazing answer on Quora to the question: I am not amazingly good at maths, so it is obvious to me whether...

Many people are not thrilled with the choices available this year's presidential election cycle. Given our moribund Congress, it is eas...

3Blue1Brown has a wonderful new series on the "Essence of Linear Algebra", where he visually explores fundamental topics in line...

A really useful website to experiment and learn how regular expressions work. You can cut and paste your text in the "Text"...

Grant Wiggins has a very interesting post on " conceptual mathematics ". The list of 9 misconceptions in arithmetic and the cha...

You probably know all about the Prisoner's dilemma. If not, consider this wikipedia link . Thanks to RadioLa b, I found this amazin...

The Edge has an interesting collection of scientific ideas that are ready for retirement (H/T Skeptic's Guide to the Universe ). As ...

A beautiful video explaining the phenomenon of "crying wine" (via Jimmy Touma ). The demonstration with pepper and detergen...

I found this resource page on Skeptical Science through the NY Skeptics podcast. The nice part about the way the page is organized is t...

Michael Lewis tells the chilling story of Sergey Aleynikov in Vanity Fair: Then he explained what he knew, or thought he knew: in April ...

Radhika Nagpal dishes out some very sensible advice  that is not dished out as often as it should be. In 2004 when I came to Harvard as a...

Interesting story entitled " How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall " in BusinessWeek on how speed is be...

Interesting interview with five popular science writers. Here is an interesting part of the conversation. I've highlighted parts of ...

Saw this funny chart on FlowingData : which reminded me of "Correlation with causation = science; correlation without causation = ...

I stumbled upon EconTalk podcasts earlier this year, and have been hooked. I find myself listening to these fascinating long-form (~1 hour...

1. Are Steve Job's shoes too big to fill? Perhaps not for Tim Cook, who is rebuilding Apple in his image . What's clear is that C...

Interesting opinion in the NYT " Overcoming Physics Envy " (H/T Bridging Differences ), trying to argue why the "hypothetico...