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Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Think Twice
We review the first of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Mathematics and pregnancy
Eleanor Doman and Qi Zhou swap percentages for placenta-ges
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 12
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
Constructing a sphere with 455 cups
Paper cups do not follow a hexagonal pattern and the cones do not meet at a single point, but they do make a gigantic sphere