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...moreIf Holly invites five women over, what is the ratio of “fear” to “coven formation”?
...moreCatherine Chung discusses her second novel, THE TENTH MUSE.
...moreI’m still working on this balance, and given that I only have about eighty or ninety years tops to get it right, I doubt I ever will.
...moreAuthor Verónica Gerber Bicecci and translator Christina MacSweeney discuss the novel, Empty Set.
...moreTruth is perspective—a plane or a sphere—which makes it feel slippery. Truth is not absolute in the ways that we want it to be.
...moreLove. Because our collective survival depends on it.
...moreWhy Finnish women matter to the history of science fiction. Holiday science books: let visions of squid and sarcophagi dance in their heads. Astronauts survive thanks to a black female mathematician. This robot could make your toddler Mark Zuckerberg. (Minus the billions.)
...moreMath reveals the six plots of fiction (and yoga). Messy room affecting your mood? These pessimistic pigs agree! Money buys happiness—if you pay in advance. That smile makes you look like a sucker. Arrival, CP Snow, and a place for the humanities.
...moreScience fiction has a huge race problem, and stock solutions don’t cut it. You’re welcome: 19th century math genius gets Hamilton-ized. The electrifying history of modern fencing. Ah, Ancient Greece. Land of democracy—and human sacrifice? Controversy over a canonical character in neuroscience.
...moreJonathan Van Ness discusses his podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, fierceness, curiosity, and hairstyles.
...moreGabrielle Emanuel writes for NPR’s Education section on the history of math education. Emanuel explores how basic mathematics were kept from becoming the common knowledge they are today, due to the influence of centuries-old taboos around money and commerce.
...moreEverywhere people are shoving things into the ground—time capsules not to be opened until the year 2100, the more optimistic postmarked for 3000—letters to the future in the language of the now.
...moreYour divine visions are in your head. When online feedback shapes a story. Mischief and math in Amazon’s book pricing. The processes of empathy.
...moreAlright fiction writers, put down your pens for a moment and let’s talk math. If you recoil when hearing the “M-word” or brace your index fingers into a cross at the sight of algebra or calculus books—you’re not alone. But according to Alex Nazaryan’s article, “Why Writers Should Learn Math,” writers could improve their prose by […]
...more“Just as there are poets who will wrestle for months to get an insight down on paper in its most jewel-like form, because to them the truth of the poem is inseparable from its expression, so there are mathematicians who believe that, if a given proof is lengthy and messy, then, no matter how ironclad […]
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