In the 1980s in Australia there was great angst about the relatively poor performance of girls in secondary mathematics and science, compared with...

Oh, I am so going to fail this thing. I studied until my eyes bled and despite knowing I know this stuff from when I learned it before, it's not...

The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics was awarded to Dr Piers Barnes and Ms Nic Svenson of CSIRO for figuring out how many photographs to take of a group of people to be confident of getting at least one where no-one`s blinking.