By Eric P. Harding
As a parent, one of the certainties of life is that your children are going to grow.
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By Shawna Ackerman
Several years ago, the Academy was invited to participate in a daylong session with the U.S. Government Accountability Office to discuss businesses’ actions to build resilience to climate-related risks and the interdependency of business and government resilience.
By Joanne Fontana
I was an awkward sixth-grader. On the first day of school, my bus never showed up, so I burst into homeroom late and sweaty with a panicked look on my face.
By David Ogden
Actuaries frequently go on ad infinitum over assumptions, methods, data, and other actuarial considerations.
By Lenny Shteyman
Isn’t it amazing that online retailers seem to know so much about us?
By Warren Manners
By Tom Toce
I promised I would try the other ways to get a roll of seven, so I present here the next-easier way, two-five.
By Stephen Meskin
This problem concerns the number of ways of putting four distinct points in a (Euclidean) plane. But first, let me put the problem in context.
By Sam Gutterman
Wow—my iPhone just told me that I only spent 4 hours and 47 minutes per day on my phone last week. At least that was a decrease of 5 percent over the previous week!