Because I have a bad habit of imagining all sorts of bizarre, improbable scenarios , I dreamt up this one: Suppose I woke up in a strange to...

Here, as promised, is the dangerous thing. Suppose you're getting a sequence of playing cards, and you're trying to figure out som...

Maybe it's because I've been writing about basketball a lot, but I thought today I'd do something a little different before con...

Prefatory to more basketball talk, I want to take a bit of time out to describe what I think is a rather elegant area of mathematics: game t...

Please , just stop it . You're hurting me . Anyone who understands statistics at all cannot dispute that Kobe Bryant does not perform...

I'm going to talk about basketball and probability again. Wasn't that obvious from the title of this post? It's apparently ne...

What do you need more monkeys to do: (a) guarantee the writing of all of Shakespeare's plays, or (b) be able to sink an infinite number ...