Gathering for Gardner 11
Today marks the beginning of Mathematics Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is Martin Gardner. Coincidentally, I recently returned from my second trip to the Gathering 4 Gardner (G4G), a...
View ArticleSix Card Ball
My gift for Gathering For Gardner 11 was a set of pre-cut playing cards that can be used to assemble a cute geometric construction. The final construction looks like this: It’s a fun design where the...
View ArticleIntroducing the Tip Palindromator
It’s surprising to me how many people I know have independently taken to tipping such that the total is palindromic. The reasons for doing so are simple enough: It’s entertaining (for you and for the...
View ArticleNon-Euclidean Chess – Part 2
Seeing as it has taken me quite some time to post this, you’re probably all tired of playing on Chess on the non-Euclidean boards that I described previously. Which means that it’s time to explore...
View ArticleFibonacci Lemonade
How would one make mathematical cuisine? Not just food that looks mathematical (like math cookies), but something that you truly have to eat and taste in order to experience its mathematical nature....
View ArticleHair Tie 120-cell
Image by Lucas Garron About two years ago, I decided to make a 120-cell out of hair bands. I had just come back from Gathering for Gardner 10, where I had helped my friend Zach Abel build a cool, giant...
View Article6OSME
I spent the last week in Tokyo, Japan attending the 6th meeting on Origami, Science, Math, and Education (6OSME). 6OSME is an amazing gathering of researchers from all of the many disciplines relating...
View ArticleBridges Math Art 2014
It’s conference season, and I just concluded a week in Korea at the Bridges Math Art conference. This was my third time there, although my previous blogging of it has been minimal. Bridges is *the*...
View ArticleSand Hill-bert Curve
Although I’ve never managed to make a particularly castle-y sand castle, I’ve always loved making sand castles at the beach. The last couple of times that I’ve been to a sandy beach, I’ve been...
View ArticleOvershadowed by the Packaging
If companies wanted to be serious about getting even slightly more environmentally friendly (and save themselves money as well), they really ought to consider using less packaging. The amount of...
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