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- The Generalist – On Alexander Grothendieck http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/11/17/the-generalist/ 18 comments
- What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...? http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/26/loose-ends/ 53 comments
- Who Expected That? Extreme close-ups create a Klein Bottle. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/02/23/who-expected-that/ 32 comments
- The "Surprise Exam" paradox http://www.thebigquestions.com/2011/12/12/the-surprise-exam-and-more-surprises/ 60 comments
- GPT-4 Fails Economics https://www.thebigquestions.com/2023/04/05/gpt-4-fails-economics/ 38 comments economics
- Follow the Bouncing Ball http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/06/18/follow-the-bouncing-ball/ 3 comments math
- "I became a lifelong political convention junkie in 1972, the year that George McGovern secured the nomination with a brilliantly executed ploy that nobody saw coming until it was over" http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/08/27/conventional-wisdom/ 7 comments history
- How an argument about the law of large numbers proving Christianity lead to Markov chains http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/07/12/chain-reaction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 14 comments math
- University of Rochester Economist: I’ll take the homophobic free trader over the protectionist crusader for sexual equality every single time: starving children trumps gay rights. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/05/04/in-the-news/ 3 comments politics
- A sequence that equals Pi/2 for its first seven terms, and then no longer does! http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/26/loose-ends/#more-7296 89 comments math
- Who Expected THAT? http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/02/23/who-expected-that/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 14 comments math
- Landsburg will bet $5,000 with anyone that thinks he's wrong: "In a country where couples have children until they have a son, what % of the population is female?". He says the answer is not 50%. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/12/27/win-landsburgs-money/ 98 comments math
- It is a cliche to say that the Internet has changed everything, and in particular that it’s changed the way we do science. But what I saw this week seemed to me to be a whole new grand leap forward. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/08/16/o-brave-new-world/ 5 comments science
- For the first time ever, a substantial mathematical problem has been solved via an accumulation of blog comments. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/04/08/blogging-tic-tac-toe-and-the-future-of-math/ 45 comments technology
- For the first time ever, a substantial mathematical problem has been solved via an accumulation of blog comments. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/04/08/blogging-tic-tac-toe-and-the-future-of-math/ 9 comments math
- Economists agree: “Nobody would want to live in a world where rich people and poor people get the same quality health care.” http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/04/06/hearing-problems/ 5 comments politics
- In a surprising and shocking letter, Justice Scalia says state have no right to secede from the Union http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/02/19/scalia-against-secession/ 58 comments politics
- If there is such a thing as a just war, Red Cloud’s War of 1866 against the United States was more just than most. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2009/12/10/centennial/ 7 comments history