Will Wilson

While we’re on the subject of form, I recently stumbled upon University of Texas mathematics professor Nikos Salingaros’ phenomenal work Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction , a short excerpt of which is posted on his faculty page: In wanting to explain a cultural mystery — why . . . . Continue Reading »

I was surprised and delighted this week to discover two essays bemoaning the state of mathematics education and, in particular, high-school geometry. I had always imagined that my pet obsession with the interactions between mathematics and culture was just that, but apparently the movement contains . . . . Continue Reading »

As often, the Onion gets the inside scoop long before anyone else: Creator Jack Dorsey was shocked and saddened this week after learning that his social networking device, Twitter, was being used to disseminate pertinent and timely information during the recent civil unrest in Iran. “Twitter . . . . Continue Reading »

Eve Tushnet’s review of the Shakespeare Theatre production of Noel Coward’s Design for Living is up at the American Spectator . The play’s us-vs.-them shtik always had something unpleasant about it, as in the servant-problem humor in which working-class characters exist solely as . . . . Continue Reading »

Yuval Levin continues his string of hits with a snark-filled review of Congressman Diana DeGette’s new book . DeGette’s confusion about somatic cell nuclear transfer dovetails nicely with one of Levin’s earlier points . Namely that the mere fact that “being on the side of . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the perks of working in the biotechnology industry is that one’s colleagues occasionally send along gems like the following: “Health Disparity focuses on understanding and/or addressing factors that contribute to differences in the disease experience across populations . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

Our very own Helen Rittelmeyer has had an article published in the current issue of Doublethink entitled ‘Toward a Bioethics of Love’ . Here’s a teaser: To frame the idea in a different way, we all hope for our friends’ continual self-improvement: that our favorite . . . . Continue Reading »