By Ralph Pantozzi What do you do when you dream of exploring space, but the spaces in which you travel contain few clear routes to the stars? Cynthia Simmons, spaceflight engineering specialist and Deputy Center Director at NASA , knew what to do: point herself in the direction of the nearest signs of flight. I...

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social Devlin’s Angle began in January 1996, as a feature in the MAA’s new online magazine (an “e-zine”). Today, just shy of thirty years later, it’s still going. There’s a complete archive of all the posts at https://profkeithdevlin.org/devlins-angle/. And now, there’s a Devlin’s Angle book, published by the MAA in its Spectrum series....