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Blockchain: digital disrupter or dud?
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Could this be the future? Don't bank on it, yet.
Beyond infinity
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There are infinitely-many infinities, each one larger than before…
To infinity
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What is infinity, and how do mathematicians count and compare infinite lists?
Black hole truths, myths and mysteries
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Black holes are bizarre and unintuitive, but not everything you hear about them is true.
Maths point—the mathematics of tennis
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There are many ways in which mathematics lies beneath the surface of tennis.
Zombies!
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What kinds of zombies exist in the world? If an outbreak happened, would we be doomed?
Keeping track of time
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The way we measure time is influenced by our culture and religion.
The mathematics of voting
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The one thing that voting systems around the world all have in common is their reliance on mathematics.
Ethnomathematics
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Many non-Western cultures have developed complex mathematical systems.
One more piece in the puzzle of the universe—a Higgs-shaped one
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What is the Higgs boson? For that matter, what is a boson? Why is this Higgs one so important?
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