Major League Baseball is trying to make sliding plays at second base safer, but, as the season starts, the debate has shifted to whether MLB has gone overboard with regulations. This started in ...

Before there were apps for tablets and smartphones, before mathematics education software was easily installed on personal computers, before electronic calculators entered professional practice and ...

PITTSBURGH -- There were many reasons the Pitt Panthers came up just short against Wake Forest in Week 8 and allowed what looked like a sure win to slip through their fingers, but head coach Pat ...

I’ve written about this several times over the years, but it’s time to write about it again. I’ve retold the story four times ...

The May 2006 issue of Scientific American (www.sciam.com, available only to subscribers, sorry) has an excellent article, “When Slide Rules Ruled”, on the history, development, use, success, and swift ...

I’ll be honest, I have no idea how to use a slide rule. But I’ve always found them to be very intriguing, mostly because they look very complicated, and I have a soft spot for the trappings of geekery ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — They weren’t exactly a “fad” (you couldn’t wear one, a barber or hairdresser couldn’t shave or sculpt one), but slide rules nevertheless became what might be called academically ...

It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules. [Chris Staecker] likes them, too, and recently even 3D printed a version.

Unless you are above a certain age, the only time you may have seen a slide rule (or a slip stick, as we sometimes called them) is in the movies. You might have missed it, but slide rules show up in ...