Over the past 50 years, the growth rate of the global human population has slowed markedly, from 2.1 percent annual growth in the late ’60s to about 1.2 percent today. Think 1.2 sounds low? Then you ...

I am responding to the Other Voices by Elise Hougesen, which ran in The Union March 13. I thought it was a very sweet way of sharing some of her ideas about love and marriage, but when I came to the ...

If you're an ecologist, you're interested in populations, and one of the best ways to understand something is to model it mathematically. So let's say you want to represent population growth or ...

I was hoping someone could help me solve this math problem that I thought up (perhaps this would better fit in the Lounge, I dunno, but it is at least tangentially connected to some groups' theories ...