game theory used on a British game show
Using R to solve a simple numerical puzzle
A calculator that requires an approximate answer before it will give you an exact answer.
The Traveling Salesman movie, premiering in Philadelphia on June 16.
The kaleidoscopic patterns of cathedral ceilings.
From Language Log: longer reviews of wines are correlated with higher ratings (they are!) and whether baboons can tell the difference between English words and non-words (they can, but it looks like that’s because the “non-words” have different letter frequencies).
God plays dice 