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How does the scientific method really work? It's probably more complicated than you think. In this article, we apply it rigorously to "prove" ?=3. This will highlight the actually mechanism of the scientific method, its limits, and how much messages of experiments are often deformed!

Claude Shannon may be the most influential person of the 20th Century, as he laid out the foundation of information theory. Yet, unfortunately, he is virtually unknown to the public. This article is a tribute to him. And the best way I've found is to explain some of the brilliant ideas he had.

How do the worlds of storytelling and scientific probability differ? A mathematician counts the ways.

In troubled economic times, it’s often hard to convince the government to fund space science. But there’s one field of research that the public should be happy to support: keeping the Earth from being pummeled by asteroids. And there is no shortage of ideas for how to do this.

No one can predict the future, but the powers of probability can help. Armed with this knowledge, a high-school mathematics education and £50, I headed off to find out how Thorp, and others like him, have used mathematics to beat the system.