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Feb 15, 2017

  • Telemetry: Tessellated paper sculptures by Matthew Shlian

  • Polygonal billiard paths, after the work of Iranian-American Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani

  • We are all Iranians: Lance Fortnow speaks out about the travel ban and its affect on his colleagues

  • David Wood shares the saga of the journal publication of one of his papers, highlighting the long and unnecessary delays in the system (G+)

  • A tantonalizing problem: Brian Hayes tracks down the original proof of the non-integrality of the partial sums of the harmonic series (G+)

  • Code that generates a mandala

  • Terence Tao on a problem resembling 3SUM, but with disjoint set union instead of addition

  • How dynamic demands cause tree veins not to form trees

  • Daily Mail officially declared non-reliable (G+)

  • The Calkin–Wilf tree in the works of Kepler (G+)

  • Notable women in science (in Spanish) for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

  • How to apportion the rent for unequal rooms in a shared apartment, using combinatorics (G+)

  • Congressional Republicans zero out the budget of the office that tests and certifies the security of voting machines

  • Don't travel internationally with electronic devices unless you want to give the feds all your passwords

  • David Eppstein

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