One thing I alluded to in my previous post , but never made entirely explicit, is the notion that there are distinct phases to a basketball ...

As a sometime scientist, I love to unify things—that is, discover that two things that look completely different are actually intimately rel...

You may think I've mistitled that, but no, not really. Suppose I put to you two ways to say a common sentiment: All that glitters is no...

I was standing at the vending machine at work today, buying some chips with lots of small coins (nickels and dimes). And as I often do, I ...

I promised (threatened) that I would say more about square roots, and so I am. This is me, talking about square roots again. In typical f...

From the time I learned about them, I've been fascinated (probably to an unseemly amount) by the square root. I remember reading about ...

Today's miscreant: The Boston Globe 's Celtics Notebook . The offending paragraph reads: Rasheed Wallace has eight technical fo...