Stories by tokenadult

This Turing machine should run forever unless math is wrong

Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

Caltech Professor Emeritus, Author Tom M. Apostol, Dies at 92

How Much Is a Good Teacher Worth? (2011)

China’s Twilight Years

Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.?

Everything Is Awesome in China

A last post about Mukherjee’s misleading New Yorker article on epigenetics

A template for future news stories about scientific breakthroughs

Math Stumps Your Doctor, Too

The Puzzle of Paul Meehl: A history of research criticism in psychology

The Golden Age of Reading the News

Most Ordinary Americans in 2016 Are Richer Than Was John D. Rockefeller in 1916

The $571B Debt Wall That Points to More Defaults in China

Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don’t: Clues to Understanding Cancer

Why Are Your Gut Microbes Different from Mine?

Theranos and the Blood-Testing Delusion

Power of positive thinking skews mindfulness studies

Las Vegas Is Betting It Can Become the Silicon Valley of Water

The Unintended Consequences of Trying to Replicate Research

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