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16 January 2012

Biorhythm graphs are an interesting – but unscientific – application of sine curves.
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7 November 2011

In a chaotic situation, a math teacher begins a murderous rampage of torture.
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16 October 2011

Today is World Food Day. Here’s how one country plans to improve its precarious food situation.
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26 August 2011
How can we cope with the 10 billion-odd bits of data that assault us every day? Tim Harford shows how we learn by trial and error.
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11 August 2011
Once debt starts to spiral out of control, there’s not much you can do. Here’s one country that is in a healthy position.
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5 August 2011
Using the scale of one grain of rice to one person, The Rice Show represents population statistics in a way you’ve never seen before.
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29 July 2011
This video discusses some of the reasons – and solutions – for global warming. It’s all about scaling.
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3 June 2011
Here’s a very neat way to illustrate Bach’s Crab Canon – using a Mobius strip.
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27 May 2011
This video is a great treatment of math for multiple intelligences – visual, musical and interpersonal.
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