Ken Shirriff's blog

I recently learned that cells are extremely crowded and busy places. I knew there's a lot of activity in cells, but I didn't realiz...

Recently I was at a multi-day volleyball tournament, which gave me plenty of time to ponder the mathematics of the game. At different point...

I recently wound up on CNN for a couple seconds doing some Arduino hacking as part of a segment on Google's workshops. Click the image ...

I attended a very interesting talk "All Questions Answered" by the famous computer science professor Don Knuth in March, where he ...

The last launch of the Endeavour space shuttle has been delayed 48 hours (update: indefinitely ) due to a problem with the APU heater and t...

What's the better way to solve a math problem? A few lines of code, or a bunch of mathematical thought? I wanted to solve the followin...