Of course not!  That's why I invented the following barometer for identifying crackpots, so you'll see how much you're not a cra...

How many times have you heard someone say, "It's just common sense"?  I just heard it myself (well, read it in an e-mail) two ...

So I'm driving to work the other day, and I'm stuck behind this car whose driver has decided that today, freeways shall be traversed...

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...