When I was ten, my dad took a couple of friends and me to see a movie. My friends and I had the choice of watching Rollercoaster , which wa...

Last night was Seventh Night (七夕), the seventh night of the seventh month in the lunisolar calendar followed traditionally by the Chinese. ...

We all think that we know when something is random. But how random is random? Part of the aim of mathematics is to unify concepts. It...

Thoughts about (and while) waiting in line at the neighborhood McD's. Mmm...fries. The Most Evil Being mocked the last queueing the...

Recently, there was a report , from the American Chemical Society, that about 90 percent of U.S. currency in circulation has detectable trac...

Some thoughts on traffic—the automobile kind, not the network kind—while there's maintenance work going on in the office across the hall...

I'd like to call your attention to our latest scourge: Well-meaning radio announcers who, while reading out URLs in commercials, refer t...