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    Loomi: A Modular Light Kit

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted December 11, 2011

    Loomi: A Modular Light Kit:

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    Early Morning Mathematics

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted December 7, 2011

    A new post is available over at Second-Rate Minds by Samuel Hansen. A blinking light was truly a sign of a good night’s sleep. Swinging his legs off the bed Lee spoke to no one, “REM Scanner results.” From speakers hidden somewhere out of sight came the answer, “Two probable, three potentials, and one solution.”…

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    Gingerbread geodesic dome by Scout Regalia

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted December 7, 2011

    [vimeo url=https://vimeo.com/33140429]

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted December 6, 2011

    A couple of weeks ago there appeared several reports of an astonishing coincidence. Reports in the Daily Express, The Sun and the Daily Mail tell of a game of whist at the village hall at Kineton, Warwickshire. In whist, one deals 52 cards equally between four players. During this particular game, all four players were…

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    Wooden QR code stool by Elena Belmann

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted December 6, 2011

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Shifting decline of mathematical preparedness?

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted December 4, 2011

    Last year I wrote On the Decline of Mathematical Studies, and ever was it so, which looked at several examples of people complaining that the new generation of mathematics students were not as well prepared as the current one, with quotes from the late 20th C, mid 20th C. and even from the early 19th…

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    XYZT, Les paysages abstraits by Adrien M / Claire B

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 25, 2011

    [vimeo url=https://vimeo.com/30518750] XYZT, les paysages abstraits by Adrien M / Claire B

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