March is Women’s History Month, and this year we are honoring the generations of female scientists, mathematicians, and engineers whose passion for the advancement of human knowledge changed the way we understand the natural world. Whatever your gifts, the stories …
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Black History Month is a time to celebrate the achievements of African-Americans and the important role they have played throughout American history. We celebrate Black History Month every February because it is the birth month of both Frederick Douglass and …
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Black History Month is a time to celebrate the achievements of African-Americans and the important roles they have played throughout American history. We celebrate Black History Month every February because it is the birth month of both Frederick Douglass and …
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I have bad news: you cannot knit your own dog. Okay, maybe that’s not fair. Maybe you can. Maybe you will have more success with this book than I have. Maybe you will check it out and start knitting dogs …
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There’s been a great deal of excitement in the math world recently, as Shinichi Mochizuki, a mathematician at Kyoto University in Japan, has recently released a 500-page proof of the abc conjecture, which proposes a relationship between prime numbers (numbers …
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Having recently completed my degree (pause for graceful acknowledgement of congratulations), I am very excited to start learning things on my own, rather than for classes. To this end, I recently found myself exploring the 500s–the science section. Science books …
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