By Eric Harding
THE OTHER DAY, OUR KITCHEN TURNED INTO AN ARENA OF SORTS—though not in the traditional sense.

By Lisa Slotznick
REPUTATIONAL RISK TO ACTUARIES—are we worried? The lead story in this issue of Contingencies on the reputational risk to actuaries’ principals (and in turn to actuaries) focuses on several topic areas—major insurance company insolvencies, climate change with its impact on availability and affordability of insurance, demographic shifts impacting solvency of retirement and life insurance programs, and artificial intelligence.

By April Choi
Do these sound familiar to you? As practicing actuaries, we inevitably encounter situations when we must deal with unreasonable requests from our companies’ management or clients. But what happens when we are pressured to compromise our professional integrity?

By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
CLIMATE CHANGE REPRESENTS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SYSTEMIC RISK that the Earth has ever encountered since the dawn of human existence.

By Tom Chivers
WHEN I TOOK MATH STATS, Bayes’ theorem took a scant four of the 800 pages of the textbook (published 1990). The instructor told us some researchers were finding interesting applications for it, but we weren’t going to learn about that.

By Kenneth A. Kent
Pickleball is one of the fastest-growing sports in America, and it’s easy to understand why.

By Warren Manners

By Tom Toce
The idea for this puzzle came from two sources.

By Stephen Meskin
We are looking for nice designs that are 4 units square.

By Robert J. Rietz
A very long time ago, at Michigan State University, I took a senior-level statistics course.