A superficial knowledge of the Greek language – alpha particles, beta decay, gamma rays and so on all the way to Omega Centauri – is essential for any scientist. But Ricardo Mansilla, a mathematician ...

Rhymers aren’t supposed to relate to relativity. Why else is the quintessential gut course for humanities majors dubbed “Physics for Poets”? But A. Van Jordan, a poet and an assistant professor of ...

Award-winning poet Amy Catanzano isn’t your average wordsmith. Where other poets dabble in heady descriptions of roiling oceans or soaring eagles, she coaxes the beauty out of quantum theory. In her ...

We often wonder where successful individuals find inspiration and energy to do the things they do. Some may harbor their forces, spending long hours focused on a single problem, a single passion. Yet ...

If you are going to shell out cash sending a kid to college, you might as well get in on their fun too. That's how my daughter's post-modern lit class slammed me into The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. It ...

My day-to-day life seems very strange since I read Brian Greene’s excellent new book, “The Elegant Universe.” Now when I drive my car on the interstate highway, I realize that because of the effects ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. An article on the Chronicle of Higher Education crossed my social media ...

'I don't consider myself in any way a writer," insists artist Michelle Gay, talking to me about her exhibition Spampoet, now at Toronto's Birch Libralato Gallery. My contention, in response, is that ...

A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, the last of which imagined the life of MacNolia Cox, the first black finalist in the National Spelling Bee. In that highly praised volume, ...

We often wonder where successful individuals find inspiration and energy to do the things they do. Some may harbor their forces, spending long hours focused on a single problem, a single passion. Yet ...