Issue 24
What's hot and what's not

What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 24

Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.

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13 November 2026

Maths is a fickle world. Stay à la mode with our guide to the latest trends.

HOT Taking a big swing

Tom Cruise’s Digger put out an original idea and lost $250m. But good for them. An inspiration to grant writers everywhere.

NOT Yet another sequel

Chalkdust now has more issues than Grey’s Anatomy has seasons. Will the chief ever retire?

HOT Technology that folds

Introducing Chalkdust Duo™, the delightful, revolutionary magazine which folds conveniently in half. With special staple technology you can barely detect.

NOT Technology you wear

Introducing Chalkdust Glasses™, opaque lenses you can write on with chalk for last-minute calculations or exam ‘prep’.

HOT Taking your time and making something good

The next time you’re told you need to finish that paper, point out that the last Grand Theft Auto game was 13 years ago.

NOT Dumping 700 pages on GitHub because arXiv banned you

No one wants to read something you haven’t checked yourself.

HOT Making jam

A good use of the berries around you and keeps you out of trouble. Free and delicious.

NOT Missing MathsJam

What if we host an excellent maths version of a classic game show?

HOT Community eclipse events

We all had a lot of fun with cardboard. Bad luck if you blinded yourself looking through a sieve.

NOT Lapel mic

No good without a collar and invariably out of battery. Result: lectures now being given with DJI mic minis clipped to board pens.

HOT Je m’appelle Mike

Lots of maths to learn and share in other languages. Yes, my Duolingo streak is 2000 days. No, of course I can’t speak French yet.

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