The threat of 3-point shooting has a powerful effect on defensive positioning. So, how is NBA shooting gravity defined and how can we visualize it? Since the dawn of the modern 3-point era, NBA teams ...

Work from home is great, right? Boss isn’t around to oversee, colleagues aren’t around to annoy, you can watch Netflix on the side, you can totally not bathe, not brush. Etc, etc, etc. This is what it ...

NEWTON'S DARKNESS: Two Dramatic Views, by Carl Djerassi and David Pinner, Imperial College Press, 2003, 184 pages, $15 (paperback), (ISBN 1-86094-390-X) Almost everyone knows about Sir Isaac Newton ...

Calculus underpins many of the greatest ideas about how the universe works: Newton’s Laws, Maxwell’s Equations, quantum theory. It’s been used to develop ubiquitous technologies, like GPS. It was even ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.

God said, “Let Newton be” and all was light. — Reads the epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton written by poet Alexander Pope. He discovered the Laws of Gravity and motion and invented the Calculus. But, ...