(NOTE: As of August 18, 2023 the NYT Digits puzzle has been removed the the NYT website. A copy of the game has been reproduced on a new private site: https://engaging-data.com/digitsgame/) About a month ago,…
Uniformity of Saturn’s Rings
Before he studied the kinetic theory of gases, and before he gave a unified treatment of electricity and magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell investigated the composition of Saturn’s Rings. In an essay contest, in which he…
The Subjective Experience of Time
In Episode 7 of the Netflix series BEEF, Danny and George, eight months after first meeting each other, sit in an outdoor patio of a restaurant. Danny met George under not entirely honest circumstances, but they…