A 72-year-old couple with $3.2 million in retirement assets toured a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) and was presented with a familiar proposition: an $880,000 refundable entrance fee and ...

On a recent episode of Ramsey Everyday Millionaires, a caller asked whether a boat costing more than his annual income was ...

Numbers like pi, e and phi often turn up in unexpected places in science and mathematics. Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence also seem inexplicably widespread in nature. Then there's the ...

A humpback whale off New Caledonia can hold a song for 30 minutes or longer, cycling through phrases that shift and evolve ...

Let’s start with what’s probably the most tired, overused joke in math: A topologist is someone who can’t tell a coffee cup from a doughnut. Both, you see, have a hole in them. Topology is usually ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Many years ago, the notion of government running parts of our food distribution system would have been dismissed outright. Food was abundant, relatively affordable, and reliably stocked on store ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Bronxville, N.Y.: I’ve watched the Kennedy Center Honors every year since inception. It has always been a classy tribute to fellowships of the arts. Sadly, though, not this year, as classless ...

Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars ...