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Total Eclipse of the Hair-t. Bonnie Tyler would be proud.

Calum is a lecturer in physics at Edge Hill University where he studies topological solitons and enjoys talking about maths and physics to anyone who will listen. He can often be found on the side of a mountain or out on a bike, talking to himself about solitons.

Oπnions: In defence of toy models
Calum gets on his soap box about toy models
Cryptic wordsearch, Issue 19
Can you solve it?
On the cover: skyrmions
Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Calum Ross introduce you to the wonderful world of skyrmions
The hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 13
Parishoners, partners and puzzled playwrights have written in to the professor's postbox this issue
Should you buy a Valentine’s day present?
For those of you tackling this dilemma, here's your answer...