Linkage

Some links I've posted over on Google+ over the last couple of weeks (and reposted here, among other reasons, because I don't trust G+ to give me a usable interface for finding all of my old posts there):

• {7,3,3} Honeycomb, an interesting polyhedral tesselation of hyperbolic space with a fractal boundary

• How to distort school rankings in your favor (G+)

• Some impressive fisheye photography of the heavily patterned interiors of Iranian mosques (G+)

• A brief history of mazes and labyrinths, in honor of a new one in place at the Smithsonian (G+)

• The journal version of my paper "Grid Minors in Damaged Grids" (G+)

• UIUC rescinds the hire of an outspoken critic of Zionism (G+ – as one might guess this led to much discussion)

• Stained Glass Windows Made from Stacked Laser-Cut Paper

• Spirographic pancakes: (G+)

• Hales finally gets computer verification of his sphere-packing proof, with inflammatory statement about journal referees (G+)

• Are 90% of academic papers really never cited? For some reason this came up on a Wikipedia deletion discussion: someone wanted to argue that a half-dozen publications with 100+ citations each shouldn't count for much because basically everyone achieved that just by waiting long enough, and used this as evidence.

• Chocolate LEGOs and other edible construction materials