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Why I Ate a Bug

Why I Ate a Bug Neuroscientist Sam Wang (BS ’86) became famous for his hobby—-analyzing elections. Like many others, he predicted Hillary Clinton would win. Wang was so confident in the data, he then made a promise he would have to fulfill… by Ben Tomlin...

The Manifold Man

The Manifold Man How Ian Agol (BS ’92) put the finishing stroke on a three-decades-old grand vision of mathematics—for which he won the 2016 Breakthrough Prize. by Erica Klarreich Illustrations by John Ritter When Ian Agol started as an undergraduate at Caltech in the...