Puns, math, references to Bob Ross, the outdoors, and a really kind teacher: That’s the combination school children deserve, dang it! And yet it almost never happens. But that’s OK; the world’s still ...

In Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco's The Lesson, a professor asks a student to multiply 3,755,998,251 by 5,162,303,508. To his amazement, the answer comes quick ...

I'd never have guessed, in the days when I used to paw through my grubby book of logarithms in maths classes, that I'd come to look back with fondness on these tables of cryptic decimals. In those ...