Skeptophilia

Behind every art is science. Of course, you can produce beautiful art without knowing any scientific details; the Renaissance masters create...

How long is the coastline of Britain? Answer: as long as you want it to be. This is not some kind of abstruse joke, and if it sounds like it...

When I was in Calculus II, my professor, Dr. Harvey Pousson, blew all our minds. You wouldn't think there'd be anything in a calculu...

A couple of months ago, I read Paul J. Steinhardt's wonderful book The Second Kind of Impossible , about his (and others') search fo...

When I was in Calculus II, my professor, Dr. Harvey Pousson, blew all our minds. You wouldn't think there'd be anything in a calcu...

I'm happy to be the one to inform you that the woo-woos have added another word to their vocabulary, and that word is "fractal....