Pi day and May the 4th should both be official national holidays

There are lots of holidays; religious holidays, historic holidays, nationalistic holidays and miscellaneous others. For the 21st century, we should add Pi day and May the fourth and not just to celebrate pi and Star Wars. For the rest of the 21st century and for the foreseeable future, the things that are going to matter…

Why science needs its own version of the Academy Awards

Science already has awards, lots and lots of them. The problem is that, despite the fact that science and technology have a far deeper impact on people’s daily lives than anything that comes out of Hollywood, most people don’t know about or care about science awards. However, that is not entirely the fault of the…