One of the cartoons from my new book ‘Physics for Cats’. In good bookshops now and online in…

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Caption: Despite his status in the mathematics community, Torus never stopped feeling inferior to his more delicious relatives, Doughnut and Bagel. 

Image: A wireframe torus with arms and legs waves awkwardly to a donut and bagel.

From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.comALT

One of the cartoons from my new book ‘Physics for Cats’. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along!

  • Wednesday, 7.30pm, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid
  • Thursday, 6.30pm, Los 3 Hermanos de Moriarty, Madrid
  • Friday, 7.30pm, Libreria Letras Corsarias, Salamanca

Links at www.tomgauld.com

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Egypt’s self-cleaning solar panels shed desert dust

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Researchers roll out solar panels that vibrate to remove dust and dirt in arid environments.

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jlvanderzwan
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Oh that's pretty clever! They add a windcatching panel to make it sway in the wind on purpose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBM5ApUFi98
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Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes

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Duration: 1:18:34
Views: 90,048

In this cross-over episode between the Main Sequence and Tom Academy, we see what it would take to prove that you can't do what you already thought you couldn't do, and learn about Tom's prurient interest in Platonic horrors. Yes, the whole 80 minutes is about cubes and their relatives.

Project site: http://tom7.org/ruperts/
Download shapes, code, paper, etc. there.
David's soothing video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=evKFok65t_E
David's verification of triakis tetrahedron: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jDTPBdxmxKw

7 trillion polyhedra were harmed in the making of this video.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Myth

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Click here to go see the bonus panel!

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The one about purpose doesn't show up until you have to spend 12 hours a day at a repetitive job.


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jlvanderzwan
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Where does this leave catgirls in fiction?
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Repair Video

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The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.
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The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.

1335: A Righteous Mushroom

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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1335.html
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jlvanderzwan
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Sunny's interpretation is quite a decent description of "memes" in their original sense tbh
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