How much do you engage with others when you’re out in public? Lots of people don’t actually engage with others much at all. Think of commuters on public transportation staring down at their phones with earbuds firmly in place.

As a professor of social

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of^[1].” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s –

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust^[1], the Moon has once again become a destination of fierce ambition and delicate engineering.

This time, it’s not just superpowers racing to plant flags^[2], but also private

Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there’s nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water.

Olympic divers turned this natural act into a sophisticated science, with the goal of making a splash as small as

Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage^[1] might.

The placenta is an organ^[2] created during pregnancy that provides nutrients to a growing fetus through an umbilical cord.

You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube^[1], and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make?

Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra^[2].

Most folks who have been through high school mathematics courses will have