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Talks about Math

Sharon Zicherman

What you miss when you focus on the average

Shalinee Sharma

4 steps to unlock your kid's math potential

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the trickster god riddle?

Ramin Hasani

How a worm could save humanity from bad AI

Dan Katz

Can you solve the basketball riddle?

Jacqueline Doan and Alex Kazachek

Does math have a major flaw?

Alex Keshavarzi

3 mysteries of the universe — and a new force that might explain them

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the magical maze riddle?

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the secret assassin society riddle?

Stephen Wolfram

How to think computationally about AI, the universe and everything

Dan Finkel

Can you solve the cursed dice riddle?

Stuart Kauffman

The "adjacent possible" — and how it explains human innovation

Daniel Finkel

Can you solve the time traveling car riddle?

Dan Finkel

Can you outsmart Fate and break her ancient curse?

Dan Finkel

This one weird trick will get you infinite gold

Raymond Adkins

How do airplanes actually fly?

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Exclusive articles about Math

Here’s how to win at Monopoly, according to math experts

Mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans have crunched the numbers. Forget utilities -- these are the properties you really should be investing in.

Posted Nov 2017

Justice in the age of big data

Justice should be blind, but the predictive policing software used in much of the US has bias and misunderstanding programmed right into it, says data scientist Cathy O’Neil.

Posted Apr 2017

When should you settle down?

Who knew equations and graphs could guide you in your love life? Mathematician Hannah Fry does -- and gives a few formulas for finding The One.

Posted Feb 2017

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