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chaos The chaos game creates patterns from random dice rolls Andrea James
graph sheets Uses for the 1960 catalog of graph sheets Rob Beschizza
unreality New research: There's a 50-50 chance we're living in a simulation and here's how to find out David Pescovitz
42 A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42 David Pescovitz
warped reality Weird and wild warped-grid jigsaw puzzles inspired by Mobius, Haeckel, and Picasso David Pescovitz
mathematicians Freeman Dyson as remembered by Tim O'Reilly David Pescovitz
mentalism "Pick a number and I'll guess it": the math behind the magic David Pescovitz
mathematicians Katherine Johnson, pioneering NASA mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures," RIP David Pescovitz
palindrome Why 02/02/20 is the most palindromic date ever! Gareth Branwyn
triangles How many triangles do you see? David Pescovitz
pizza Why you should almost always order one large pizza instead of two mediums David Pescovitz
shall we play a game In this tic-tac-toe variant played with all X's, the loser is actually the winner David Pescovitz
entitlement effect The Oligarch Game: use coin-tosses to demonstrate "winner take all" and its power to warp perceptions Cory Doctorow
kitchen science Engineers developed a mathematical model of Ooblek David Pescovitz
jessica wynne Do Not Erase: Jessica Wynne's beautiful photos of mathematicians' chalkboards Cory Doctorow
modeling Video: the mathematics of where to park your car David Pescovitz
a new kind of podcast Stephen Wolfram recounts the entire history of mathematics in 90 minutes Cory Doctorow
mtg You can make a Turing machine inside a game of Magic: The Gathering David Pescovitz
measurements The weight of a kilogram changed overnight; the length of a second may be next David Pescovitz
adi shamir The world's preeminent cryptographers can't get visas to speak at US conferences Cory Doctorow