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Turing and Wittgenstein: An entanglement of math and philosophy

In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.

Strange Maps

How young is the oldest building in your state?

Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what’s missing.

Starts With A Bang

This Is Why We’ll Never Detect Hawking Radiation From An Actual Black Hole

The theoretical reasons to expect it are compelling, but the technology required to detect it is unfathomable. All throughout our galaxy, millions of black holes of a variety of masses […]

Starts With A Bang

This Is Why Scientists Will Never Exactly Solve General Relativity

Even extremely simple configurations in General Relativity cannot be solved exactly. Here’s the science of why. It’s difficult to appreciate how revolutionary of a transformation it is to consider the Universe […]

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: What does the edge of the Universe look like?

There’s a point beyond which we cannot go, there are things beyond that we cannot know. But here’s what we expect. “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it […]

Guest Thinkers

The Next Best Thing?: Digitizing the Museum Experience

One of the greatest art experiences of my life was going to Paris and roaming the Louvre. Making the pilgrimage to the Mona Lisa, checking out the Nike, walking around […]

Technology & Innovation

Old Spice Repackages Dos Equis’s “Most Interesting Man”—For Women

While Old Spice’s “Smells Like a Man, Man” viral marketing campaign is an enormous success—the Old Spice Channel on YouTube has received 6,589,665 views and gained 94,580 subscribers—the ad campaign […]