Here’s a tough question for you: Suppose you have a flexible ball that can pass through itself [perhaps use different language here, difficult to think about the answer without understanding the question] , can you flip the ball inside out with out cutting it, and without making any creases or seams in the ball? If [...]

Yesterday, I was casually reading through my Twitter feed (which largely consists of publishers who link to their articles…#noshame) and I came across this interesting piece titled “Internet Opens Education” from the Michigan Daily.  This article summarizes how thirty-three top universities across the nation are beginning to open their courses to anyone in the world [...]

For so many of us, mathematics can be a daunting field. Math often seems like an insurmountable obstacle, which we may feel will never prove useful or relevant in our lives. However, math, like other fields, is a topic that is not merely understandable, but can often be quite interesting and even amusing. If you [...]

With the beginning of every semester comes the ever-going debate about textbooks.  Should I buy my books?  Online or in store?  Is it worth it to rent my books?  Can I find it from a friend or at the student book exchange? Doing the full research into all of these options is far too complex to really [...]

This summer, I spent a large chunk of my time studying abroad in San Jose, Costa Rica. For those of you who have studied abroad or know others who have, you’re probably familiar with our newest obsession with the country we visited; once we return, it’s all that we want to talk about. And so, [...]

The concept of an open science community is not a novel idea by any means. The concept of transparency is a tenet of good science and is traditionally the model needed for the most rigorous theories. It would be very hard to create a coherent theory of physics if one cannot access all the recent [...]