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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?
A daredevil’s disaster
Donovan Young goes round the bend exploring what happens when the loop-the-loop goes wrong
On the cover: skyrmions
Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Calum Ross introduce you to the wonderful world of skyrmions
Oπnions: Can a horse have an Erdős number?
Lucy Rycroft-Smith reflects on the use of this well-established measurement
Mathematicians and their Gods
Believe it or not: Mathematics and Theology can coexist