the widow's world

5 on the 5 th is nearly upon us once more, and to celebrate I thought I'd post five of my favourite contributions towards this monthly ...

I've been meaning to read this ever since the Channel 4 adaptation in 1993, which starred Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney. The novel w...

I just found a link to this statement in which Ricky Martin has acknowledged, on his website, that he is gay. But should it be news? As a g...

Mathematics has never had a reputation as being the most exciting subject in the world. Writing a book about how a 300 year old Theorem was ...

Yesterday I posed a question, lifted from Simon Singh's book "Fermat's Last Theorem". The puzzle was related to Game The...