May/June 2021

Features

What’s in Your Airspace?
Feature

What’s in Your Airspace?

By John Divine
For the vast majority of human history, our species had no interaction with the skies. Perhaps the most serious entertainment of the subject for millennia on end appeared in a cautionary Greek myth. Alas, things didn’t end well for poor Icarus.

Departments

Follow the ASOPs, Inside and Out
Up To Code

Follow the ASOPs, Inside and Out

By Alice Rosenblatt
Internal or external users of actuarial services—should there be a difference in the work? Not much; actuarial work should be done in a similar fashion, and the substance of communication to internal and external “customers” should be very similar.

Eight Is Enough
Cryptic Puzzle

Eight Is Enough

By Tom Toce
I wanted to make a COVID puzzle, one where all the entries, or at least the across entries, pertained to what’s been going on the past year.