M y drawing ability stalled out at the second grade level.  To wit, this drawing of an imaginary place that I did in reply to a request fr...

S omeone wondered the other day why we keep saying the same thing over and over on our blog.  "Ok, ok, we know things are complex, get...

  

I t was about 70 years ago that the complex problem of anemia, malaria, and genetic interactions, with their relation to hemoglobin was firs...

W hat 'causes' cancer?  This was a very mysterious disease for a long time, and there were many theories about it.  Prominently, in ...

I  recently read Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy , and this led me to begin re-reading one of the books that was a precursor to the ju...

"T he human mind possesses a basic probabilistic knowledge."  So say Fontanari et al. in a newly published paper in PNAS ("P...