God Plays Dice

Last week I wrote about confusing coffee pricing : Wawa, a Philadelphia-area convenience store chain, charges $1.25 for 32 ounces of coffee ...

Here in the Philadelphia area, we have an oddly-named chain of convenience stores named Wawa . At Wawa, you can buy coffee for the following...

Within spitting distance of my apartment (okay, maybe not literally), tonight, will be the Artclash Collective's Fun-a-Day show . Basic...

There's a pretty standard theorem that one proves at the beginning of, say, a differential geometry course -- that any (n-1)-dimensional...

Right now, in Philadelphia, it's sixty-one degrees, with a light rain. I have long maintained that this is "generic Philadelphia we...

Let's say you have a map of the streets in an area. Could you guess, from looking at that map, which intersections the locals consider ...

Funding heads off SEPTA fare hike . The public transit provider in Philadelphia, SEPTA, recently raised its fares; the article is saying tha...

A couple weeks ago I came across a suspicious-sounding claim that New York City tap water costs 24 cents a gallon ; the correct figure is 0....

Today I had jury duty. During the lunch break I went to Reading Terminal Market , where I spent $9.05 for lunch (it was a large lunch, becau...

There were six homicides in Philadelphia yesterday. The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer is "Summer's beginning: Six dead i...