This is an old (2010) video, but I keep returning to it because I love the notion of a math salon.  A while back I wrote a post describ...

Last week I was interested in a story I heard on NPR. It began with the question "How many trees are there on the planet?" I star...

In a letter to Robert Hooke in 1676, Isaac Newton wrote "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." Newt...

"Honeybees are some of nature’s finest mathematicians. Not only can they calculate angles and comprehend the roundness of the earth, t...

There are many types of storms, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards. Caused by extremes in weather, storms can ca...

Weather describes the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place at a given point in time. Generally weather is described in terms t...

My last thematic list focused on water and the water cycle . It did not include books on clouds or any form of precipitation. These things ...