Casey Johnston

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Casey Johnston, born of Albany, NY, is a 22-year old female student at Columbia University majoring in Applied Physics. Weird, right? All the boys in her classes think so too. When not solving Gauss' Law and deriving expressions for luminosity distance, Casey can be found writing for College Humor, TUAW, and Ars Technica, consuming copious amounts of television, and going to comedy shows. She enjoys running, eating cold oatmeal, cooking (things other than oatmeal), and playing video games.

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A Few Quick Things About Little League

With the Little League World Series in full swing, now's a good time to go over a few things you might not know about Little League. Little League was formed with the express purpose of being cost-free to... READ ON

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Frederick Law Olmsted & His Beautiful Parks

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 - 1903) is far from a household name these days, having died over a century ago. Despite this, his reach remains wide in the United States. Olmsted was a landscape designer and pioneer of landscape architecture, and was the genius behind many urban green spaces that still exist today, and continue to anchor their cities with a measure of respect for nature. Olmsted prided himself on his ability to place natural-looking spaces smack in the middle of cities, and took great care in... READ ON

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5 Rules of Thumb and Their Inventors

It is a popular custom among learned society to toss around the names of theories without explanation or elaboration-- Murphy's Law, Occam's Razor, and so on. But who were Murphy and Occam, and who are they to come up with these life-governing rules? Below are five well-known rules and laws, and the stories behind their namesakes. 1. Occam's... READ ON

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3 Solved Math Mysteries (and 2 That Still Plague Us)

Mathematics has fascinated the human race nearly as long as our existence. Some of the coincidences between numbers and their applications are incredibly neat, and some of the most deceptively simple ones continue to stump us and even our modern computers. Here are three famous math problems that people struggled with for a long time but were finally resolved, followed by two simple concepts that continue to boggle mankind's best... READ ON

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5 Familiar Numbers and the Logic Behind Them

Given how digital the world has become, we are hardly bothered by having to deal with one string of numbers after the next: credit card numbers, social security numbers, IP addresses and so on. Do these numbers hold any meaning, or are they just random sequences in a database? Read on to find out. 1. Credit Card... READ ON

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4 Women Who Rocked Physics

When asked to name women who have significantly contributed to science, most people shrug and say, "Marie Curie?" In fact, women have added to our scientific repertoire capabilities no less than nuclear fission and modern day alchemy, among many other discoveries. 1. Lise... READ ON

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