For humans, death is surrounded by culture, emotion, ritual and language. But the question can be framed in a much more basic way: What would an animal have to understand in order to recognize that ...

This post concludes the three-part survey of musical embodiment—the idea that music isn’t just a mental experience but one that involves our entire body, and how this physical connection shapes our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University at Buffalo requires a Math Readiness Assessment (MRA) to determine readiness for students wishing to enroll in first semester calculus courses, MTH 121, MTH 131, and MTH 141. The UB MRA ...

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 ...

One is the loneliest number in Mascha Schilinski’s superb second feature, a fractured reflection on childhood and family that eschews linear narrative for immersive atmosphere, telling the story of ...