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Bea is a PhD student in the computer science department at UCL. Since joining the team she’s found that the other editors find the phrase ‘it needs more white space’ very triggering.

In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
Page 3 model: The potato Earth
How Kelvin estimated the age of the Earth by thinking about a baked potato
Talkdust, episode 3
A podcast for the mathematically curious
Digging for roots in the complex plane
Bring your shovel, and dig with us to unearth some amazing results about polynomials
Why self-service machines give such awful change
Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in pennies
Newsletter puzzles
These puzzles appeared in the Chalkdust newsletters. You can find the answers here and sign up for the newsletter here.