MadMath

Here's a really great article that came to my attention on the abusive notion (or at least, sloppy analogy) that "the course syllab...

In Klondike Solitaire, what's the chance for starting with two face-up cards of the same rank & color (what we might call "shad...

Yesterday, the New York times published an expose on how schools in certain (poor, rural) places are being used as guinea pigs and getting ...

Researchers in Australia and France claim to show honeybees learning to do symbolic addition and subtraction (really just incrementing and d...

A fascinating article by a PhD candidate in military history: On the U.S. Navy's switch from face-to-face classrooms for training office...

Another journalist publicly declares their inability to understand the most basic math: in this case, confidence intervals . This is Statist...

From 2012: Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, n...