There’s a lot to discuss in Canada ahead of its April 28 election, including tariffs, inequality and President Trump’s threats to annex the country. But a political debate in Montreal on Wednesday night won’t have a prime time slot. That is because many Canadians would rather watch a hockey game that evening. A French-language debate…
The night before Dr. Joanne Liu was scheduled to deliver a long-planned speech at N.Y.U. Langone Health, the hospital affiliated with her alma mater, she received a call that stunned her. Her presentation on humanitarian crises was being canceled, the university official on the other end of the line said. The reason, Dr. Liu said…
Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in the shape of pi, the mathematical constant that equals the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, or roughly 3.14159. A sugar cookie recipe works fine, Dr. Daubechies says. But she prefers a savory…