The turducken, which is a chicken baked inside a d...  ...entific way to look at the phenomenon. Vi Hart, a mathematician , is a person of science and breaks down the possi...  ...a staggeringly complicated scale.Content warning: math .-via Nag on the Lake

Most of us, especially those in the food or shippi...  ...only around 79% water, but the paradox is in the math as a normal person would visualize it, not the fo...

[https://youtu.be/-WyC5w9cH70] (YouTube link)Shaqu...  ...about two minutes in before Shaq figures out his math error, but the logic problem remains. The price o...

Go on, whip out that calculator and confir...  ...Go on, whip out that calculator and confirm the mathemagical equation above. From @Pickover.

Kids are going to run into subjects that are diffi...  ...ubjects that are difficult for them, whether it's math , reading, history, or whatever. Anything we can d...

Dani Ochoa posted this video to the Star Wars subr...  ...ally special, until it was debunked by a crowd of math nerds. -via Metafilter

Here's another TED-Ed brain bender that can ruin y...  ...ogged down and went for the answer. Yeah, there's math involved, as well as logic, which is why I got bo...

Robert Recorde was a polymath Welshman born in 151...  ...ress, quickly and with a minimum of wasted ink, a mathematical equation in symbols. Instead of writing, "A facto...  ...e whyche is takene awaye a quantitie of foure," a mathematician could write: "x + 3 = y - 4".That opened the door...  ...d write: "x +...

It's common knowledge that you don't want to wear...  ...ew members wearing any other kind of uniform. But mathematician James Grime looked at the numbers in a different...  ...ent way. He gave a lecture called "Star Trek: The Math of Khan" at the Museum of Mathematics in New Y...

A Thai restaurant in San Antonio will let you use their wifi, but they're not going to make it easy! Joshua_Glock posted the sign, looking for some help. The top comment at reddit has an answer, but I don't know how corr...