Math
Obscure Mathematics Make Max Cooper's Music Video Mesmerizing
"There's just something so divine about that law, it's just so primal and insanely complicated. Almost like the soul of everything. It just feels spiritual to me."
Candice Wiggins Thinks 98 Percent of WNBA Players Are Gay, Says She Was Bullied for Being Straight
Candice Wiggins sounded off on the WNBA on Monday, claiming that 98 percent of women in the league are homosexual and that the league was intolerant of her heterosexuality.
Anicca Harriot Is Dabbing Her Way to the Stars
The 20-year-old biophysical sciences student went viral after posting a tweet calculating the angle of her dab, but that’s just one of many sci-tech accomplishments so far—and yet to come.
Mathematician Proposes Blocking Tsunamis with Sound Waves
Whether or not we could ever engineer such a thing is uncertain.
Trump's Trouble with Numbers Is America's Problem Now
The new administration's insistence on exaggeration and fuzzy math is a bad sign for the next four years.
The People Obsessed With Solving Bizarre Sex-Related Math Questions
How many Eiffel Towers would it take to fuck the world for 72 hours? These, and other Kendrick Lamar-inspired questions, are the ones keeping Reddit's amateur mathematicians up late at night.
Why Pizza Was the Hero of 2016
2016 was weird, but here are all of the ways that pizza was the greatest thing that happened this year.
Destroy Your Year-End Lists, These Kids Rapping About Math Is Objectively the Best
“Divide, multiply, and subtract ayyyy.”
Someone Built a Working Four-Bit Computer Out of Cardboard and Marbles
You don't need electricity to implement binary operations, though it certainly helps.
Mathematicians Have Figured Out Perfect Way to Brew Coffee
Researchers from the Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry figured out the formula behind the ultimate cup of joe.
What’s the Difference Between a Billion and a Million, Anyway?
The transatlantic number confusion continues.