Stop signs are octagons and yield signs are triangles. What other shapes do we use?

If you’ve ever tried meticulously tearing an orange peel off as a single piece, this week's MIRL looks at one of the shapes you might end up with!

This week’s MIRL looks at some of the challenges in making a flat map from our spherical world.

Have you ever noticed that the hardest part of blowing up a balloon is at the beginning? There’s some math and science behind that!

How can math help make our world more vibrant? This week’s MIRL focuses on some of the math of colors!

With the Stanley Cup finals continuing on Tuesday, this week's MIRL looks at some of the angles in hockey.

Ever been on a hot streak… until you weren’t? What does math have to say about our probabilistic intuitions?

SUMM wishes you a colorful (but conflict-free) Thanksgiving! How can math help create conflict-free seating arrangements?

This looks like an MIRL.  I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few MIRLs in my time. Click to learn how math is used to make big files small 📁

They say 'numbers don't lie,' but people can certainly use them to craft some whoppers or false impressions!  This week's MIRL: When graphing goes wrong.