The following are selected articles from past issues of mathNEWS, chosen for their quality and/or originality. Please send any suggestions that you may have for this page to the mathNEWS editor(s).

Please note this page was compiled shortly after Volume 69. To suggest newer "bests", please send an email to the editor(s).

A collection of the most hilarious phrases ever to come out of the mouths of University of Waterloo professors and lecturers.

• Spring 1995 (Volume 68)
• Fall 1995 (Volume 69)

by Mike ``Hammer'' Hammond

A set of hilarious spoofs of Magic^TM cards, based on aspects of life at UW. Get yours today and start collecting!

• Set 1 of 5 (Volume 69, Issue 2)
• Set 2 of 5 (Volume 69, Issue 3)
• Set 3 of 5 (Volume 69, Issue 4)
• Set 4 of 5 (Volume 69, Issue 5)
• Set 5 of 5 (Volume 69, Issue 6)

by Steve ``Flipper'' Shaw

Proof that everything you need to know in life can be learned by reading mathNEWS. Or maybe the contrary...

• Clean Genitals are Happy Genitals, and Other Things They Don't Tell Frosh (Vol. 66, Issue 0)
• Time Management Skills for the Stupid (Vol. 67, Issue 5)

by Sarah Kamal

Grumpy Young Frosh Sarah rants and raves about the trials, tribulations, and trivialities of her university life. She's not bitter; just grumpy...

• Grumpy Young Frosh Gripes About The Work Term (Vol. 68, Issue 1)
• Tall Skinny Chicken Boys Suck (Vol. 68, Issue 2)
• Grumpy Young Frosh Tells A Little Story (Vol. 68, Issue 3)

by Marni Mishna

A highly informative, much-acclaimed series of brief exposés on famous women mathematicians from throughout history.

• Women in Math (Introduction: Hypatia) (Vol. 69, Issue 2)
• More Women in Math (Maria Agnesi) (Vol. 69, Issue 3)
• The Queen Of PDE's (Sonya Kovalevsky) (Vol. 69, Issue 4)
• Sophie Germain (Vol. 69, Issue 5)
• The Mother of Abstract Algebra (Emmy Noether) (Vol. 69, Issue 6)
• The Return of Women of Mathematics (Olga Taussky-Todd) (Vol. 71, Issue 2)
• Women in Mathematics (Ada Lovelace) (Vol. 71, Issue 3)
• Women in Math (Mary Somerville) (Vol. 71, Issue 5)

by Ian Milligan

A unique, sometimes absurd, often non-sensical, even more frequently semi-delirious, and always humourous view of life.

• Earwax of the Soul Part I - Stamps (Vol. 68, Issue 3)
• Part II - Love Lost (Vol. 68, Issue 4)
• Part III - The Rules for Life (Vol. 68, Issue 5)
• Part IV - Dark Secrets (Vol. 68, Issue 6)
• Part V - Aliens (Vol. 69, Issue 1)
• Part VI - KAWPHY (Vol. 69, Issue 4)
• Post-Teen Angst: The Next Generation - Conduct (Vol. 70, Issue 1)
• Post-Teen Angst: Source of Seven Essential Nutrients - Psychic Powers (Vol. 70, Issue 2)
• Post-Teen Angst: Blitzkrieg Insanity - Rice (Vol. 70, Issue 3)
• Post-Teen Angst: A Lobster Named Claude - People Without Heads (Vol. 70, Issue 4)
• Post-Teen Angst: Ach, lieber! Raccoons! - Hallucinations (Vol. 70, Issue 5)
• Post-Teen Angst: The Brain, Located Here - Television (Vol. 70, Issue 6)
• Post-Teen Angst: Just Like That River Twisting Through The Dusty Land - Meph (Vol. 72, Issue 1)
• Post-Teen Angst: Saw An Astronaut Floating By - Cereal (Vol. 72, Issue 2)
• Post-Teen Angst: The Tautology is Right - Tangents (Vol. 72, Issue 3)
• Post-Teen Angst: I'm a Sponge? - Winter (Vol. 72, Issue 4)
• Post-Teen Angst: I Am Not Grandpa! - Dangle That Worm (Vol. 72, Issue 5)
• Post-Teen Angst: Mind if I Drive? - Sidekicks (Vol. 73, Issue 1)
• Post-Teen Angst: Fumer Peut Vous Tuer - The Smackinthehead Patrol (Vol. 73, Issue 2)
• Post-Teen Angst: There Is No ``Try'' - Armed Robbery (Vol. 73, Issue 3)
• Post-Teen Angst: I'm a Monkey -- Eeep! Eeep! - What the World Needs (Vol. 73, Issue 4)
• Post-Teen Angst: By The Power of GraySkull - Exams (Vol. 73, Issue 5)
• Post-Teen Angst: The Wrath of Khan - What Happened to Last Week's Column (Vol. 74, Issue 2)