Math
How Many Trees Does It Take to Fill a Mexican Art Space With Printed Websites?
Kenneth Goldsmith, the Museum of Modern Art's poet laureate, wants to print out the entire internet and put it on display in Mexico City's LABOR space. How many trees will have to die for this art? By my count, 56,000.
How Your Ears Do Math Better Than Mathematicians
If sound waves were like water waves, you you might expect to feel them as a big shove like a big wave of water coming in from the ocean. Except that's not what happens. When sound arrives, it's not a "hit" at all. Let me explain why.
The MPAA's Gaping Hole
They overestimated their copyright loss by $50 billion. Here's the math that describes how.
Has Math Screwed the Syrian Revolution?
A subset of game theory that focuses on political leaders' relationship to those who make the real decisions can tell us what's really going on with Syria.
ΔΙΑΦΗΜΙΣΗ