Reese Richardson reports on a recent study he did with Spencer Hong, Jennifer Byrne, and Luís Nunes Amaral, entitled “The e...

I was reading Merchants of Doubt and came across this passage: “Seitz, like his mentor Eugene Wigner (a Hungarian refugee) was ardently anti-Communist. (Wigner in later years lent his support to Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, eventually feeling that any enemy of Communism was his friend.)”

Wow. I’d only known Wigner as a famous theoretical physicist (not...

Stephanie Lee writes:

Stephanie Rolin, a mental-health services researcher, found out last month that a journal had accepted her latest paper for publication. But there was an asterisk. Community Mental Health Journal was requiring her to f...

This post is from Bob.

I used to work in natural language semantics, and the following dialogue from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There was the most common pull-quote to see at the beginning of a thesis.

“When I use a word,: Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — n...

From this 1981 interview:

So when did the loss of certainty begin? Where did we take a wrong turn?

It began around 1800, and it began with geometry. I usually like to quote Mark Twain about this. He said that man is the only animal that ...