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Non-uniformly-random playlists sound more random than random ones

Is it a good thing that science is monolingual? Is it even true? (G+)

Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity

Erik Demaine presents the MAA Centennial Lecture (G+)

What if we held elimination tournaments based on the strength of math departments? (G+)

Mathematical equations as architectonic forms

Persi Diaconis on good and bad ways to shuffle cards (G+)

Open problems in topological graph theory from the late Dan Archdeacon

How to fix a wobbly table. But only if the problem is the uneven ground, not the table itself.

Square ice in graphene sandwiches (G+)

Nature Publishing Group lets authors pay for faster reviews. One editor quits in disgust.

Five biases pushing women out of STEM

Entropy compression, proving that randomized algorithms terminate because their past histories have too little information (G+)

George Hart on why you shouldn't believe many claims about appearances of the golden ratio (G+)