I had a training partner many years ago who used to torment me by doing workouts like 7x1000 or 13x400. I'd be doing 6 or 8x1000, and 12 or 14x1000 – those numbers just seemed more natural to me. I ...

The ability to classify objects is crucial to thinking. When you place an object into a category, you are able to predict things about it. When you see a small furry four-legged animal in someone’s ...

Most visitors to restaurants arrive in even-numbered groups: a table for two, table for four. Most appetizer nibbles at restaurants arrive in odd numbers: five fritters, nine slices of crudo, three ...

Ever wonder why you prefer to have an even number on the volume dial rather than leaving the TV's sound on, say, 73? While many write this quirk off as a minor OCD habit, our emotional ties to numbers ...

Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the molecular level, of DNA, the very blueprint of life itself. Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the ...

A pair of mathematicians solved a legendary question about the proportion of vertices in a graph with an odd number of connections. “It’s a bit of a surprise, at least for me, that such a combination ...

The ability to classify objects is crucial to thinking. When you place an object into a category, you are able to predict things about it. When you see a small furry four-legged animal in someone’s ...