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Around 1919, the British mathematician G. H. Hardy hopped on a London cab on his way to visit his Indian colleague Srinivasa Ramanujan.The cab’s licence number,…

Earlier today I set these three puzzles, loosely based around 1729, the “taxicab number”. To read about the link between London cabs and 1729 please read…

On a brisk February evening in 2006, around a hundred people gathered in the venerable Koreatown watering hole HMS Bounty to pay their last respects to…

The government shutdown may have prevented the publication of September’s job report, but we can be reasonably confident that when the numbers are known, they will…

A unique depiction of military lifeNow Boots shines a spotlight on the courage and resilience of service members, who sublimated an integral part of their identity…

CHICAGO – Given how early it happened and everything that happened afterward — all those abortive threats by the Milwaukee offense and tense outs recorded by…

Stewart continues: “This was another means of smoothing national sensibilities by ensuring that the precedence given to the Irish saltire – because it lay over the…

Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, massive glaciers are disappearing and projected to melt away completely by the beginning of the next century, leaving ice-free peaks for…

The exposé of vile police discrimination at Charing Cross police station comes just three years after the last exposé at the same station (Met plunged into…

Katherine TerrellCloseKatherine TerrellESPN Staff WriterKatherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in…