God Plays Dice

Here's a fascinating article on what math is good for in biology: The "Gift" Of Mathematics in the Era of Biology , by Lynn Ar...

A misleading headline from MSN: College Kids and Monkeys About Equal on Math . This is in reference to the work of Elizabeth Brannon , who a...

You know how everybody says that the nautilus shell grows in a golden spiral , i. e. a logarithmic spiral that grows at a rate of φ = 1.618...

It's often claimed that the reason that there are many more men than women in certain academic disciplines (mathematics is one, but that...

Worms do calculus to find food . (Um, not really.) But apparently worms use salt concentration to find food, and tend to head in the direct...

Can a biologist fix a radio? , by Yuri Labeznik, via Anarchaia . This article asks a question: say biologists decided to research radios in...

In genetics they have a unit called the centimorgan. This unit is a unit of what is called recombinant frequency , and it doesn't seem...