Recently, a student came into my office.

… wherein I gather interesting math posts for your reading pleasure, especially those related to math storytelling.    September 25 (today!)...

My exhortation to the first-year class at Harvey Mudd College

There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...

Episode from The Balance, by Dr. Catlin Tucker

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

🪺 Based on real behaviors 🌸 Hand-drawn art ♟️Cutthroat strategy 🐦 Asymmetric powers

or: A few texts for processing SCOTUS' horrific Voting Rights Act attack

An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026.

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...