Last week, I saw an interesting entry on the front page of Lobsters. It was a blog post about a math puzzle that the author had found on a telephone pole in the streets of San Francisco. The author had tried to solve the puzzle but eventually gave up and...

What’s the best way to simultaneously get millions of weebs excited to play a gacha game AND to also motivate a tired guy to revive his blog for the nth time in his life?

I started watching Pantheon a few days ago. In the show, near the end of the first episode, we see a scene with one of the characters, a teenage loner named Caspian, at the dinner table with his parents. Caspian’s father begins to chide his son for learning differential calculus,...