Improbable Science Blog

One of my favorite sites, now in a blog format.

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I'd like to apologize for the slowness of the blog. Fortunately, there's a very good reason: I've got a book contract! "Good Math" will be published by "The Pragmatic Programmers" press. The exact publication date isn't set yet, but my schedule plans for a complete draft of the book by summer. (…
One of the odd things about blogs, at least for me, is that they encourage a really informal and oddly intimate relationship between the writer and reader. I feel like I really know my favorite bloggers, in a way that I would never presume to know my favorite novelists or newspaper columnists or…
In a classic temporal reversal, this advanced self-publishing machine (ie, the "web-log") has been converted into a bi-monthly print column in the LA Alternative, a Los Angeles-area lifestyle newspaper, now the only alternative weekly in the city since the LA Weekly's deep sell out. Logistically,…
Wow, this is a truly unexpected honor: one of my essays was chosen by the "MetaCarnival." This blog carnival seeks to bring together the best of the blogosphere by sampling the diverse topics collected in the carnival format.