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Read Issue 23 now!
Sleep, coffee and cheating at Tetris feature in our SS26 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
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In conversation with Anne Skeldon
Sam Kay and Ellen Jolley race against the body clock with the University of Surrey professor
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Cheating at Tetris
Ffreuer Bristow works out which pieces can force someone to lose
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The secret life of words
Barry Pawlik builds words and sentences from doubles
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Solving a cubic in 1646
Elinor Flavell takes squaring the circle to another level
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Comic: Introduction to catalysis
If you'll open your textbook to page... oh, the cat's sitting on it
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Dear Dirichlet, Issue 23
Travel, trade and Tony Blackburn pepper the prof's postbag this issue
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The Chalkdust guide to: Citation metrics
Confused by other academics telling you about their h-index? Then this handy guide may be just what you need!
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