[ This post is adapted lightly from a Facebook post I just made. ] <tl;dr> The Atlanta crime doesn't need to have been racially ...

At work, I run a mathematics colloquium that meets every other Thursday.  I don't always present—I probably present about 20 to 25 perce...

Because I apparently don't have enough random crap on my plate, I occasionally participate on Quora.  I'm there as Brian Tung; I...

Bottom line up front: This is probably going to end up long, longer than it is now.  That might be true no matter when you're reading th...

I got the tl;dr out of the way in the title. I've written previously about the value of multiple points of view (literal points of ...

One of the best-known phenomena in the insect world is the unusual recurrence of various populations of cicada.  There aren't any cicada...

I participate from time to time at a site called Math StackExchange , where users ask and answer questions about mathematics.  Most often,...