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	Math The Formula That Plots Itself That’s so meta…This mathematical formula, like many formulae, can be plotted on a graph. But when you plot this one, it creates a picture of itself! Benford’s Law A very strange law of nature, of sorts Experimental Math What you get when you subtract theorems from math How to Make an Artificial Windbag As if I didn’t write enough BS myself… How to write a simple computer program that “talks”, when you give it something to learn from. The Promise of Infinite Monkeys Given an infinite supply of something (time, space, monkey poo), you’re bound to find something interesting. Fun With Number Theory. What mathematical concept is named after Hank Aaron? What’s the Feynman Point? What formula is correct to 42 decimal places, by coincidence? How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fermi? The funniest, funnest, and funnyest Fermi Problems I could come up with.
	Science Why Heavier Things Don’t Fall Faster. That’s it. A no-BS answer to that perennial physics question. How Physics Helped Figure Out DNA — “Assume the double-helix is a sphere…” How Science Could Destroy The World — Reasons why science is an even bigger threat than Willem Dafoe I’ve Got A Theory — a mega-article profiling the most ambitious scientists in the world. I’ve Got a Theory and I’m Crazy — ambitious? Yes. Scientists? You decide. Neutrinos — The universe playing hard to get The Strangest Ever Attempts To Communicate With Aliens — including one method that is simply jaw-dropping.
	Nature Secret Communication in Nature, Part II: Animals — turns out, there are secret channels of communication being used all around us, without us ever noticing. Sneaky varmints Secret Communication in Nature, Part I: Plants — are plants capable of communication? Do they have cognitive abilities we aren’t aware of? Can I ever eat salad again? A Cellular Automaton? In My House? — the houseplants sitting on your bookshelf might just contain CELLULAR AUTOMATA!!! Cicadas: Number Theorists of the Insect World — they’re also a delicious snack The Creepy Creepy World of Creepy Twins — Did I mention creepy? The Quantum Limit of Human Senses — How sensitive are human senses? Can they sense down to the quantum level? The answer may surprise you! The Shadow Biosphere — The possibility that life arose more than once on Earth, and where those other life forms might have gone Bronchitis of the Earth — Deep Underground Microbes — the few, the rare, the miles deep beneath your feet
	History The Government Takes a Holiday. “Dude, I thought you were watching the legislature this weekend…” Funky Geography. When maps stop being maps, and start being real Symmes Hollow Earth. The Symmes family: real estate on the Earth’s surface and interior Ancient Legends: Fiction or Bullshit? Do we remember Neanderthals? And call them “giants”? Fascinating People from Fascinating Human History. Have you heard of the Basques? Who exactly are the Gypsies? Which African tribe has Jewish ancestry?
	People Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath Numbers — the people at the center of the universe Celebrities Who Are Smart — Damn them! Modern-Day Polymaths — Nerds of a higher caliber
	Culture The Movie Cube — don’t leave your data lying around free to take, or we’ll analyze the crap out of it. Unusual Time Signatures in Music — “Hello Cleveland! Are you ready to calculate???!!!” Random Walkipedia — Ever take a stroll at random through Wikipedia? The Declaration of Dolemite — We the People, Pimp! We release the random-text generator on a mash-up of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and the works of Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) The Most Awesomely Named Things Ever — What’s a “Hapax Legomenon”? Who cares — it has an awesome name!
	Technology and Design Esoteric Programming Languages — as if computer programming wasn’t hard enough already…
	Just What The Hell Is… Color Vision — remember primary colors? Yellow and blue make green? There’s a lot more to it. A lot more linear algebra, to be specific. Fire — just what is it? Plasma? Pure energy? The dancing spark of the soul of my inner being?
	Opinion Advice for Physics Majors — As a former physics major, PhD student, and physicist trying to find a job in the real world, I’ve got some advice to give. (It’s got my usual hilarious jokes, but is serious advice.)
	Original Research A Unified Theory of Booze Drinking — our first original research paper. A scientific approach to how to drink on a budget, and what to do when it inevitably backfires.
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