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Author Simon Singh's new book teases out the mathematical references hidden in The Simpsons. Singh tells NPR's Scott Simon that the show's writing team includes several trained mathematicians — and that the logical bends and breaks of writing comedy can be very appealing to the mathematically minded.

Every fall and spring day after school the girls walked downtown together to their perch atop the hillock on the lawn of the government building across…

When Dagmar returns to Sweden after living in London, she’s appalled by what she sees.

Follow a wild cheetah mother and her cubs in Zimbabwe.

The Chamber Music Society returns for its first concert since the start of the pandemic.

Robert Wardhaugh has been playing the same game of Dungeons and Dragons since 1982. It started with four players. Now there are 60 people, and they're on Zoom, Wardaugh tells CNN.

The losers include people who wanted meat labels and debt relief for Puerto Rico. The winners include oil companies and horse lovers.

Social media loops, athlete protests, Wall Street harassment; pet threat; Andy Borowitz

See the experiences that led Pope Francis to the highest office in the Catholic church.

The surprising and overlooked history of disco: its origins, its fall and its legacy.