In 1926, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to his fellow physicist Max Born stating: “quantum mechanics … says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the ‘Old One.’ I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.”² Einstein rejected…

How do I win at poker? I’m down two buy-ins, the fish (or am I the fish?) has just taken my all-in post-flop straight-flush-draw semi-bluff as a challenge to his honor and decided to call it with pocket threes, and instead of me getting my ten or my spade, he…

On the cold, foggy northwestern shore of Lake Superior lies the small city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Not long after the fiery birth of planet Earth, magma poured through Mesoproterozoic rifts into the Earth’s crust and left behind sheets of hard diabase rock, which icy Canadian streams eroded over the…