MIT researcher and undergrads figured out a way to win the lottery and — over 7 years — spent $40 million to win $48 million.

Daily Mail reports: Officials at the Massachusetts state lottery knew one of their games had essentially been taken over by the group of hig...

Algebra class is hard — so should we stop requiring it?

That's what polisci prof Andrew Hacker argues in a NYT op-ed: Algebra is an onerous stumbling block for all kinds of students: disadvant...

Tweeting with Taranto.

@ jamestaranto That was a rounded-off number, kinda like saying you've got 25 more years to do affirmative action. — Ann Althouse (@ann...

How did Jonathan Turley come up with 19 as the best number of Supreme Court Justices?

We're all wound up waiting for the Supreme Court to announce its new decisions this morning, so let me while away some of the remaining ...

George Zimmerman is "one-fourth black, four times as black as Warren is Indian, though the New York Times describes him as a 'white Hispanic.'"

Writes Michael Barone , noting that Elizabeth Warren asserts that she is "1-32nd Native American [and] George Zimmerman, the Florida ac...

"Physicist writes four-page math paper to beat $400 traffic ticket."

"The paper concludes that due to the officer's placement, the sneeze and the obstructing car, the cop's 'perception of real...

2 women do the math about women and math — and science and engineering — and say it may take 100 years before 50% of professors in the STEM fields are women.

Cheryl Geisler, dean of the faculty of communication, art, and technology at Simon Fraser University, says: "In the last four years we...

Perceptual learning — developing an eye for problem solving.

Some cognitive scientists think it's something schools could teach in addition to learning the rules and theorems: The brain is a patter...

"I've really never understood the business... of sending these pictures to women."

Can someone please explain to Mark Schmitt — and everyone else with this comprehension problem — why some men send pictures of their genital...

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."

Said Richard Feynman , who died in 1988, at the age of 69. There's a new book about his life, which was marked by the death of this firs...

A mathematical walk.

The Fibonacci chimes at the new Morgridge Center here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Some nerdy graffiti near the math buildings:...

"A simple question from a six-year-old about hangman turned into another analysis obsession that made me play 15 million games of hangman recently."

Bottom line: the best hangman word is "jazz." Via Metafilter .

“Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives."

I'm just watching this video after watching "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" on "Nova": As one of the commenters o...

"It was cold and calculating. There was no gray, it was black and white."

Taking an attitude like that, about 40% of Americans say they hated math in school. Interestingly, about 25% of Americans say it was their ...

Extreme male brain.

Look out! The scientists are categorizing brains : Three types of people were revealed through our study: one for whom empathy is stronger t...

"Teaching math in a neutral manner is not possible."

Because we teachers are compelled to patronize you students.

Are you math teachers sure you're trying hard enough...

To indoctrinate your students? Well, now really, let's think about this. I agree that this is ridiculously politically slanted in one di...

Inside the UW-Madison Physics Department.

After Fedjur class today, I packed up my laptop and walked over to the Physics Department where I was to be the guest speaker at the Chaos a...

The view from Madison: base ten! lasers!

I've been mesmerized by my laptop screen for a long time, and was slightly irritated that a group of four men decided to set up at the t...